 At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore. |
| You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money. |
| I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense. |
| To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me. |
| I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues. |
| I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. |
| I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live. |
| A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making. |
| The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me. |
| What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive. |
| LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight. |
| It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. |
| The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically. |
| Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. |
| Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. |
| My sisters are my favorite people on earth. |
| I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker. |
| But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns. |
| There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to. |
| To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. |
