Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't direct movies because I get offered the….

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth..

I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people ….

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simult….

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway..

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else..

When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it ….

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical..

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed..

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds..

People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you….

They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, Armageddon, Bandits and Friday N….

My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that..

When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you wer….

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists..

You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams..

You have to really know what you're saying..

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom..

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know..

It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need to be accepted, and ….

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other..