It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

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.

She’s over the top rebellious, but damn her heart overflowing with insane love.She shakes thing up.Doesn’t play by rules and certainly fitsin nobody’s pretty perfect box.

The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

We're sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed

I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.