Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.
I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
I'm an outsider.
I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
I don't think I'm an outsider at all.
I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.