People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.

It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.

I grew up mostly in the South, and there's definitely something about the South that's different from the North. When people ask me where I'm from, I say Louisiana. I spent more years there than anywhere else.

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.