There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

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.

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.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

The cross shows the seriousness of our sin—but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

We live in the best of all possible worlds

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.