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I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.

I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

I did important films when I was very young.

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.