The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.

When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

Playing guitar was a calling, but I never realized that it was going to be a career. It was just something I did out of love.

I think of my career as something apart from myself.

How often do we make films just celebrating people that do a good job, work altruistically, and are in it just for the sake of the love and not the business?