Around my own friends, I like to mess around..

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

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

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….

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter..

I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into t….

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….

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home..

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead o….

I'm a man without a corporation..

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hir….

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk..

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..

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

Everybody likes to win..

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….

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

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

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….