Jay Hernandez

“Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it.”

“But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.”

“I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.”

“No, I've never played baseball in my life.”

“There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.”

“For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.”

“I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.”

“I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.”

“We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.”

“It's always challenging to go into a role.”

“No, I was going to college and got discovered.”

“I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.”

“Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.”