"I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid."

"Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire."

"It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other."

"Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself."

"In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day."

"A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father."

"We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other."

"My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching."