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I Don't Just Look At Things As An Actor. I've Also Written Several Films, So I Look At It As A Storyteller And I Know If Something Worked And Should Have Been In There For The Benefit Of The Story And The Benefit Of The Character.

The Landscape Of Cinema Is Not Original. Not To Say There Aren't Great Movies Being Made, But It's Much Easier For Studios To Make Movies That Have Built-in Audiences. So It's All Remakes, Adaptations, A Lot Of Remakes Of Adaptations.

I Have Too Many Control Issues, So It Just Is Not Good For Me To Go And Watch A Film, Too Soon After I Make It.

Right Before I Got 'sons Of Anarchy,' I Actually Quit Acting For 18 Months And Didnt Read A Single Script, And I Wrote A Film. I Felt Like I Needed To Do Something That I Had Control Over, As An Artist, And Also Just Do Something Where I Felt Like I Had Some Control Over My Life, As Just A Human, Out In The World.

I Got Expelled From High School, And Then Did My Exams From Home. I Decided, Through That Experience, That I Was Going To Expediate My Plan And Didn't Go To University. Instead, I Went To A Community College And Studied The Theory And History Of Film With The Idea That I Wanted To Write And Direct.