…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.