New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

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.

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

Work with "what is" rather than "what if" and you will move towards "what can be.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Sometimes I say some things people may think are just outlandish, but I'm going to have the last laugh.

Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.

If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.

Its so funny whenever things come full circle.