If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

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

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

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

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.