When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.
With 'The Crazies,' we had a lot of room to play and manipulate and change things. When you get something bigger, you have less control in that sense unless you're one of the three stars.
I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn't really figure out why. Then I got into college and started messing around with photography, and I realised that it was about getting the images that were in my head out in a way that didn't have to be spelt correctly.
I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.
I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.
