I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

My movies are not messed with by the studios.

I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.