Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can`t even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.
Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.
I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you`re not dependent on others, you don`t have to wait. You can sit down and just create.
My Mom, she`s from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a Missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.
I`m not a comic book guy. I`m pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
Ultimately, it has been a struggle - but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago - sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making.
There were a lot of reasons I chose "Grounded for Life": my family was close by and I didn`t have to travel, and I loved the cast so much.
Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid...but stay focused.
(About "Grounded for life"): Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.
I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.