I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.
If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.
The audience, that's who I care about.
The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.
I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.
You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.
You have to really know what you're saying.
I've led a very eclectic life.
Every character I play is me, always has been.
If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.
To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.
I don't think anybody chooses to be an underdog.
Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.
Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.
People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.
I always wanted to play a lawyer.
Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.
When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.
If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.
The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.
I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.
I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.
I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.
I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.
Now the idea in the movie world is to make things the same. And in the TV world, the idea is to do something different, so... that's why I'm here!
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