"I have always liked kind of outsider characters. In the movies I grew up liking, you had more complicated characters. I don't mean that in a way that makes us better or anything. I just seem to like characters who don't really fit into. You always hear that from the studio: "You have to be able to root for them, they have to be likeable, and the audience has to be able to see themselves in the characters." I feel that's not necessarily true. As long as the character has some type of goal or outlook on the world, or perspective, you can follow that story."
"I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it."
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Source: Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2009.
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