Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

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.

Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

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