I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way

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.

How often do we find the blind leading the not-so-blind?

The choices we make impact not only our life but everyone we come into contact with daily!

Perfectionists are neurotic people. The world is perfectly beautiful in its imperfection.

Don’t serve time. Make time serve you.

I really enjoy working on small films.

Who teaches the soul if not God?

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

Thanks to all the fans from Detroit and Philly who are recognizing what type of player I am, and I hope they keep supporting the Sixers.