I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn’t even know they were pregnant.

We took a completely different slant on it than the original; all the characters are totally different.

It’s funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

I love experiencing other people’s realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

Some of the people started asking about that, and [back] then I didn’t know anything about it. I went and talked to Warner Bros. about it, because they’re making it, and obviously I would love...

It’s the South that maintains the idea that they’re different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

Not only did he do that and win a national championship in the process at Texas Western, he became an institution in El Paso. He was never lured by NBA or big-school NCAA money. He...

Knowing what it means to sometimes have a ton of money, and sometimes have no money and have to come up on-the-fly with something.

About 40 years ago, it’s stunning to think that the NCAA had never started an all-black team before. No one had done that before.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

That is oftentimes the case with actors because the nomadic element of their life means, in a sense, that they are recreating themselves. I would sort of in somewhat of an ugly, schizophrenic style lie...

My instincts are not comedic.

It’s definitely got more explosions, crashes and thermonuclear fallout than you can decently put in a movie, … But what also drew me to it is that it is a cautionary tale. Technology makes war...

I think I’ve spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

We had our two and three hitters on three times. But, we either missed a sign or made a mental mistake and couldn’t come through with a clutch hit. Those are the things we have...

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

Always do something different. Always different things.

I visited those friends who’d just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic...

I really wanted to go and be part of the protests.

No, well, my father’s definitely not Christopher Walken.

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there’s a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

I’ll look at the script and I’ll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

The cool thing about Haskins is that he was basically colorblind. He never understood why white players couldn’t play against black players and vice versa. It made no sense to him. He just wanted to...

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable – if anything, quite happy with what you are doing – then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I’ve made...

Comedy is so hard; it’s so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

I’m challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

Stealth is the big playful summer roller coaster of a film, but there’s a really interesting idea which is that the military, the navy is at the point where they are about to stop building...

So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it’s travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

But talk about a great man,

I’m right at a time when I’m strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

Haskins was a complex character. He was charismatic but he also had rage. I think he’s more complex and difficult than Bobby Knight.

The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

He would literally come every day –I had a day off and weekends and stuff — and pick me up early in the morning in his truck and we’d go out and do what he...

I’ve worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn’t say… eh, that’s Josh Lucas.

There’s such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

a real rattlesnake to play.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn’t work.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.