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.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes, while sometimes true, are exaggerated for me to the point of boredom.

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.

Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.