“Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it.”

When I play the 2, I have a more broader understanding of what’s going on and where the screens are being set in order for not only myself to get open, but for my teammates.

I’m going to give input when I need to. When it needs to be said.

Even during my injury, I had fun because I got to be a regular college kid.

Five out, zero in, and that’s the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it’s what it’s about.

Grease’ is an awesome movie. I wish they’d make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

Everybody in the NBA is good. And then you have the really good ones and the great ones.

When I’m playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.

When I’m playing the 1-guard, I’m kind of seeing everything that’s going on.

I don’t leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers.

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.

I love the gym; I love basketball. I’m really passionate about it.

My focus is basketball, and that’s it.

I went to my agent and told them, ‘I want to be on another Disney show.’

I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn’t consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I’m a great listener to music.

When you’re playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it’s like a video game. There’s so much talent on the floor at once.

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.

The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.

Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.

I want to become a movie director and win an Academy Award. That’s what I’m trying to do.

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director’s input.

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.