Quotes

I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers, it felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.

“I’ll never have a more life changing year than last year than this last one (2003- 2004). I could win an Oscar and it wouldn’t alter my daily life as much as “The O.C.” (2003) has”.

“You know how in The Fugitive (1993), when Harrison Ford hears sirens, he’ll just subtly steer the other way? I do that when I see groups of teenage girls”.

I love movie-making. I’m interested in writing and directing, and I’ve dabbled, but I haven’t done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don’t have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

I don’t want to be one of those guys who’s known for his love life and not his work.

I was giving away movies all day, and it looked really interesting. I was not into school, there wasn’t anything I wanted to do. The only thing in my career counseling class that looked at all interesting was acting. I was kind of drifting. I thought maybe I’d own a surf shop.

It’s very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that’s half the battle of life.

I’d like to write a little bit. If I could trade being an actor for a writer, I’d rather be a writer. But I don’t know if I’m I’m any good at it

Life is so fleeting in a way – and it’s unlike me, because I’m very driven, and I get a little obsessive – but I am trying to be very Zen about it. Just enjoy it.

And, honestly, who cares if you get a good movie or not? I feel like I’m in semi-retirement already a little bit. I’m 27, and I have a house. I’ve decided that I’m happy with my lot in life.