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

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

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

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.