Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Port… — John Robinson

Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.

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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. — Abraham Lincoln
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. — Voltaire
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? — Khalil Gibran
If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that. — John Robinson
It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie. — John Robinson
Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know? — John Robinson