I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

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

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.

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.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.

[Writing a joke] there is no team of writers. It's just you in an office, staring at yourself in the mirror.

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.