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When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I'd like every movie I saw.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.