Apparently something was in there, still marinating in his brain. It's a strange one.

Mike came up the driveway screaming, 'My mother and father are dead, my mother and father are dead.' They weren't dead.

I remember thinking it was right out of Rod Serling, and 'The Twilight Zone.' It was one of those situations that was just weird. You're surprised when it's someone local in (a plot such as) this. But at the same time, seeing what he was trying to do that one night, it doesn't surprise you that he could move on to something like that.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'