New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of..

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely….

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9..

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it..

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 ….

What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolade….

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math..

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard..

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work..

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time..

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work..

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling i….

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant..

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable..

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleas….

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

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their min….

Always do something different. Always different things..

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