In terms of Ray Liotta, when I was a teenager growing up in Colorado, I didn't have pictures of girls on my wall. I had pictures of Ray Liotta on my wall. Along with Mike Patton, he was one of my heroes.

Lars Ulrich, he was my hero growing up. I wanted to be like him. I played the drums.

As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

I love the novel as a form, as an adventure of mind and soul. Really, I absolutely love writing them; they consume my days and nights - what can I say? But I am an avid film student, too: I watch a movie every night.

The Producers Guild represents the creativity, innovation and dynamism that sets our industry apart from all others.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.