I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
“I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.”
“If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.”