Matthew Gray Gubler

“I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.”

“I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.”

“The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”

“Joe Mantegna is like my Los Angeles dad.”

“I'm a control freak, and anytime I direct something, I try to make it as homemade and handmade as possible. I feel like that's my favorite type of filmmaking, where you can see the seams, and it doesn't feel like a swiftly produced, whole seeky-eyed event.”

“Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.”

“When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.”