I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Don't Stress About the Future. Live Life and Love Now!

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

A woman has the right to make decisions regarding her own body, not the United States government.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.

Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality.

Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.