I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.

No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.

I hate to use this as a metaphor, but making movies is kind of like going to war. It's not - but the stamina required and what it takes to tell a story that is this big in scope, you need a general that will bring out the best in you.