I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Thanksgiving creates abundance.

I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.