When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

During my career I did not stop to think what it meant to me, but now that I'm at home and watch videos, and watch my goals I become happy because of what I did

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.