No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.

San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.