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

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

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

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."

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

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

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole