Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!'' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.
It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.
I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.
When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.
I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it. " It was not an honorable thing to do.
You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.
People say if you keep making work and keep putting it out, better things will come. I think artists should never forget that. I think that's what you have to be committed to if you're an artist, that's where the good feelings come from. It's so easy to get caught up in other stuff, like the business part of it. If you just have to be aware, just keep putting it out there.
When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.
Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away. '