Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

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

Every character I play is me, always has been.

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I've led a very eclectic life.

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