In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

Like rain HOPE trickles little by little at a time so that life may spring up when you're parched.

Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.

To me, love was a drug. Jett was my drug.

Literature is my utopia.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

Is Chris Rock still gonna host the Oscars after this blatant racism?? Is everyone still gonna show up??