“I figured out that I could think of my childhood dog that had died, an...” — Henry Thomas Quote

I figured out that I could think of my childhood dog that had died, and I could bring myself to tears. So I used that poor dead dog for several years until it just didn't work anymore, and I had to find something else.

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.

My son, who is 7, he passed a car in a parking lot that was probably a 1998 model, and he said, 'Wow, Dad, look at that old car.' I was looking around for an old car, and I realized that my old car maybe stops at 1965.

I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.'

There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.