13 Quotes by Phil Morrison

What I'll always be grateful to Amy for is that she never tried to apply her own logic to the character. During her audition, it struck me that she was really teaching me about the movie.

My mother and Myra Doernberg, the mother of our production designer, David Doernberg, were the utility infielders on the team,

I was influenced by Angus, first and foremost. And by growing up in Winston-Salem and thinking about how other movies affected me.

I wasn't interested in avoiding stereotypes or clichs. Because I think that's a fool's errand. You go around and around trying to make that happen. It was a question of accepting or acknowledging these clichs . . . and saying, yes, these are types. But then exploring these types and moving them toward human-hood.

What really impressed me was that one of my friends went to a Max Ophuls retrospective at Lincoln Center and Michael Barker was there every day. When your distributor is doing that, you know it's not just a job. They really love movies.

We Southerners are complicit in defining our region by what is peculiar about it.

We just plugged in and did what we had to do.

(Ben) was the only cast member who I had not seen in anything because I hadn't seen 'The O.C.,' ... All I saw was his audition for Johnny ... I'd seen Amy in plenty of stuff.

It wasn't fun, ... I didn't have time to have fun. But thanks to those 20 days, I've had more fun than I've ever dreamed of.