Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now..

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing..

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career..

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life exp….

I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit..

The audience, that's who I care about..

Now the idea in the movie world is to make things the same. And in the TV world, the idea is to do something different, so... that's why I'm here!.

A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're ….

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd w….

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part..

When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit ne….

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player bac….

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played….

I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a hat and do it. I would just you know. That's why I nev….

I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something..

Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that righ….

They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to d….

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor..

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too..

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people..

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there..