There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.

I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.