I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

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.

The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.

For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality -it is merely an opinion.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.