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

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.

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

It was if the devil himself had devised the perfect earthly torture for Lady Alicia Lawrence. “Now how will I occupy myself when I get to hell?

When you see the world through your mind, you are very judgmental. See the world through your heart and be non-judgmental.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.

The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

Without contraries there is no progression.

Millions of people of color still experience racism daily.