Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...

If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic. That would be the worst thing in the world for me.

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.