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

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

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 Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball and nor will they ever. Even when they are 60. I will leave it in my will.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

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

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

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