I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't direct movies because I get offered the new vampire movie or science fiction movie. I don't get offered those, anyway, but if I did, I would just tell 'em, "Look, I'm the wrong guy." I only do things about people and situations, and I do the ones that I think I'm the best guy for the job on, which is usually something I generate myself.

When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.

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

Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.

The audience, that's who I care about.