I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.

There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.

Step Brothers' was like a reward for going through my whole career and somehow surviving.

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.