Orlando was the first guy I thought of because we'd done a commercial together and I just liked him -- every take was different.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

I always thought I'd write about my dad, at some point, ... I didn't think it would be like this, but it arrived like this. I'd been listening to a lot of Garrison Keillor at the time. I love that simple story that ends on a grace note and you go, 'Wow, I'm just happy to be alive right now.' That was the feeling I was chasing.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.