It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - act….

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes..

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as r….

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic..

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding..

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking..

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie..

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne..

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God..

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got….

Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day..

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns..

Everybody likes to win..

It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you to meet somebody." So I get….

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's….

I'm a man without a corporation..

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every….

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities..

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad..

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else..

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review..