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

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

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.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

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

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.