Roadkill drove Paul car crazy

In Roadkill, I'm one of three drivers - two brothers and a girlfriend - making a road trip across the country. The other two are Steve Zahn and Leelee Sobieski, and it's directed by John Dahl. To pass the time, the black-sheep brother, Steve, decides to have a CB radio installed in the car. We start prank-calling these truck drivers, and we piss off the wrong one!

I would describe it as a commercial film but with arthouse style. It has the flair that's usually associated with John Dahl. We shot the film in 1999, but because they wanted to change the ending we had to go back later and do reshoots. In all, there are five variations of the ending. Even though the movie was testing well and audiences liked it, the studio decided to temporarily shelve it and release it after the buzz of my film The Fast And The Furious. It pisses me off, but the studios want to make money. They even changed the title from Joyride to Roadkill.

I'm passionate about cars so my time on the film was fine. On The Fast And The Furious I worked with some of the best technical advisors in the world. I was always picking their brains, so by the end of it I knew exactly what car I wanted. I had it fixed up and I race it now. I do drag-racing, a quarter-mile in a straight line. With drag-racing, the trick is knowing when and how to shift. I'm getting bored with it, though, so I'm gonna start road-course soon. It's a good stepping stone.