I was making choices that were very specific: Make a living, take care of your family, and if you can, find some movies that you can sink your teeth into.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

I was making choices that were very specific: Make a living, take care of your family, and if you can, find some movies that you can sink your teeth into.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

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

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.