Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it's a shell. It's like, they go from one shell to the next. And that's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.

When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.