Tim Blake Nelson — American Director born on May 11, 1964,

Timothy Blake Nelson is an American actor, writer and director... (wikipedia)

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.
Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.
I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart.