Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

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.

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.

Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.