Having been trained as a stage actor, and then you go out there and you're on 40,000 acres and you have a horse under you and you're shooting a real ….

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile..

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War..

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood..

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success..

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television..

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing..

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of remov….

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction..

If you've ever tried to move from L.A. back to New York, that's a pretty hard move. You forget how cramped things are in New York. You forget how dir….

You don't need to like your protagonists..

I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals….

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized..

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us..

Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic..

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character..

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork..

I like being able to be a man..