Adversity teaches and shows you who you really are.

Football's important to me, but it's not my life. It's not the biggest thing in my life.

Every game comes down to one or two possessions, so you just really have to take advantage of them.

It's something I really want to be known about me. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for my faith or my relationship with Jesus. It's the biggest thing in my life.

The first time away from home, I feel like you have to kind of figure out who you are. I was all over the place. Early on, I think I was a little bit more worried about what people thought of me. That was a big deal. Just going out, parties or going downtown a lot, that was part of my first college experience.

The groups I was hanging with, the people I was surrounding myself with, I remember feeling really unsettled about my life and the trajectory of where I was headed.

Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

I think art is the imperfectly perfect or perfectly imperfect way of self-expression.

I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.