My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen. So you're constantly calibrating to play to their strengths. And the key is to never ask them to do things that are beyond their abilities or are really far away from who they are at their core.

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

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.