“My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.”

“Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.”

“The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.”

“I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.”

“What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.”

“I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.”

“I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.”

“It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.”

“I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.”

“I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.”