I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.
A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.
I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.
I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.
I was cast in a film toward the end of high school. Even then, I wasn't sure.
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.