My instincts are not comedic.

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.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally.

Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.

Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.

In order to see a fish you must watch the water

The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.

That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.