In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.

It was a school of 55,000 people, but all I knew were soccer players.