Josh Lucas

“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 up to that point.”

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

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

“Always do something different. Always different things.”

“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.”

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

“No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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