Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

Fear doesn't shut you down

A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

God is another word for Love.

Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.

For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.

A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.