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

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

I'm kind of the funny guy that hopefully kind of wins your heart if I did my job.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

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.

I have a bit of a bucolic kind of upbringing, and so I certainly bring an amalgamation of different people that I've met over the course of my life, especially before moving to Los Angeles, so I guess my childhood was my homework in a lot of ways for Harlan County.