But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

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.

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

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

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.

We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.