The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very casual.

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

He's this kid growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 70's--you know the height of the troubles in Ireland, ... He discovers he's an adopted orphan and that his father is actually this parish priest, played by Liam Neeson. So it's just this crazy mad journey that he goes on to find his love.