I Don't Have Anything To Prove To

Any Questions I Had About Whether A Redneck From Oklahoma Could Become A Brown Classical Philosophy Professor Ended When I Met Tim [blake Nelson].

I Like It When The Deeper You Go With The Character, The More You See The Layers Start To Peel Away.

I've Been Friends With The Guys In Radiohead For A Lot Of Years, And I Watch The Way Those Guys Work With Incredible Envy. Because Whatever The Slings And Arrows Of Dealing With The Record Business, At The End Of The Day, They Have Total Creative Autonomy. They Don't Need A Lot To Do What They Do, And Thom [yorke] And Jonny [greenwood] And The Guys Have Their Own Joint In Their Hometown.

But Work That's Got Real Substance Does Make People Feel, "there's Someone Else Out There Who Relates To My Experience, Or Who Just Helped Me Understand My Own Experience A Little Bit Better." And I Think That's Still Got Enormous Value.

I Have This Embedded Faith In The Process Through Which Films Of A Certain Type Get Discovered On Longer Timelines.