The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

I always give myself a little part in every movie.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.