You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

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

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.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

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