Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.