When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.
I live by ‘Go big or go home.’ That’s with everything. It’s like either commit and go for it or don’t do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That’s what I live by. That’s how I like it.
Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.
Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me.
I’m extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.
I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.
I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.
I’m as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.
I never thought I was going to be an actor. And I never really thought of myself as one. Even though I keep working. I thought I’d just do a wave of movies, and then I’d burn out. They just kept coming together.
I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me.
I like to make big decisions when I am at home living a routine life, getting up, walking my dog, having breakfast, when I have no pressure. I do not like doing it when I making a film. It is too stressful.
I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don’t know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.
I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals.
I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports – surfing, basketball, it doesn’t matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.
You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.
I feel I have lived my whole life, day to day, without planning anything and I like it that way. Things change so fast, one minute you are here, the next minute you are on a plane, it’s great fun.
Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.
Being a digital photographer I’m in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray’s portrait of the photographer Lee Miller.
I was exposed to nature by my mother who loved camping, so I always enjoyed the outdoors and that has been a lasting passion. We went on nature walks and I became fascinated with the environment as I got older.
There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.
Remember that no matter how cool you think you may be, you’re not cool enough to look down on anyone... ever.