I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the arts there. I sang in choirs and did singing competitions. I also did a whole lot of theater; I did high school, and then I started doing some community theater. I decided that was the kind of thing I wanted to study in college.

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.