At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

Always do something different. Always different things.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.

I will say only this - when le prête is in the right mood, he can make even the devil afraid to turn his back

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.