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

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.

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.

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.

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

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