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 love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

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

Always do something different. Always different things.

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