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

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

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.

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

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 removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

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

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