All these labels and praises scare me. I am very simple, and I feel like a newcomer because I never stopped learning.

As an actor, you keep learning. There's no end to it.

I had great memories as a child artist.

I wouldn't want to change anything about my career.

We even have a music career. Our song ‘Hold On,' charted on Billboard. I mean, we don't have aspirations to tour with Justin Bieber but we have a lot of different interests and talents."

My agent hates my directing career!

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.

I can't point to anything that has been more responsible for my career than my training.