I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.
I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
I have jobs that I've preferred more than others simply because I've gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I've pulled at least one very close friend from every project I've done.
My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you. ' I think this is true.
Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.
I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on. ' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'
It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning
Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.