I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

The joy of the Lord is our strength.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.

With a face like mine, I do better in print.

I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.