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

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.

I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a black hole for actors. Now, television has a certain cache. Now everybody wants to be on TV because they're doing adult dramas. If you're an actor, it's like, "Well, get me on television," because it's the only place you can do it and also make a living at it. If my kids need shoes, I better do a TV show because I damn sure don't make any money with independent films.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

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

I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.