I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault.

No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.

I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

You are the Winner, You are the Looser, You are the Sinner, It all depends upon how serious are you about.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

A small deer came into my camp and stole my bag of pickles. Is there a way I can get reimbursed? Please call.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Be grateful for every word you can cut.