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.

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.

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.

I have never seen as far, than those times I have looked through someone else's perspective.

People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do—and when our lives don’t measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn’t real.

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

The best investor is your customer.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.

There will be a player greater than me.

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.