At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.