Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

I love California. I love Hollywood.

I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

I've been through a lot of struggles.

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.

Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.

They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.

I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.