“Nobody teaches a writer anything. You tell'em what you know. You tell'em to find their voice and stay with it. You tell the ones that have it to keep at it. You tell the ones that don't have it to keep at it too because that's the only way they're gonna get to where they're going.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“Cuz it's real difficult in life to get things the way you want them. When I'm writing it's easy. But there's a fly in the ointment. I have no... talent.”
Kevin Corrigan - JJ Lask

“- Marsha Dwiggins: Will you ever kill anyone again, Karl?
- Karl Childers: I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody.”
Sarah Boss - Marsha Dwiggins
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

“- State Trooper: You boys gonna go undefeated?
- Brian Chavez: Yes sir.
- State Trooper: You boys gonna win state?
- Brian Chavez: Yes sir.
- State Trooper: Good.”
Gene Burns - State Trooper
Jay Hernandez - Brian Chavez

“- Raquel Martinez: Screwing around is second oldest reason to kill someone.
- Emily Bradford Taylor: Oh really, and what would be the first?
- Raquel Martinez: Money, honey!”
Sarita Choudhury - Raquel Martinez
Gwyneth Paltrow - Emily Bradford Taylor