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.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places.

I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice.

You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams.

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.