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.

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.

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!

Only by learning the truth—whatever that truth might be—could people be given the right kind of power.

What you do with your time daily is essential for spiritual and physical growth

Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

Fame overcomes everything.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.

I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world