To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.
When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.
My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.
Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.
I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.
In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.
I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
