I talk different, I walk different, everything. I don't have one single bad memory [there]. Not one. It was my sanctuary. I hated school, wasn't good in school, and me and my dad butted heads about that. But nothing mattered when I went home to Alabama.

Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.