I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

Have you ever been to a place you're supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only because that's exactly what I have to play.

The things we love tell us who we are.