After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different..

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories..

I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my legacy would be as a serious actor ….

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career..

At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad..

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers..

People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there..

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets..

I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid..

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy..

So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become obsolete, and ….

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas..

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it..

Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star..

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I do….

Every character I play is me, always has been..

You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a vampire movie. But if you're….

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now..

I'm kind of sad and happy all the time. Just kind of like feeling, you know, full of life and confident, and at the same time terrified. I'm all of t….

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies..

If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and ….