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

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.

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.

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 went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.

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

The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.