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.

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

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.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure

I would rather be average and wise than be extraordinary and imprudent.

Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

The Tibetans have many teachings on how to die, consciously, and how to remain in the clear light, and it works. You can see it working, and they can stay in that state for hours, days, or weeks.

It must be the body. It's chiseled out of marshmallows.