What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South

I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie."

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.