I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.

A leader should not be a dictator.

The more educated the people, the freer they are.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?