Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn.

You cannot love God and tolerate evil. Psalm 97:10.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash.

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.