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

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.

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas

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

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

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'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