Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point

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

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

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

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

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

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