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.

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

Sadly, in this country - maybe this is in the history of the world, really - it's the urban experience versus the bucolic experience. And it is different, but therein lies the slow progression of democracy. We are a melting pot.

I've had a great career. I've had a great life. I am truly blessed by my working experiences.

With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's second movie, Daddy and Them, to just a bunch of movies that I have done have been comic, and they're usually from a cynical kind of pessimistic point of view which is probably my sense of humor, and this is a part of myself in everybody that I play.

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

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.