"I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going."

"I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself."

"The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting."

"I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere."

"The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region."

"I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes."

"I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me."

"An angry father is most cruel towards himself."