You don't need to like your protagonists.

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

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.

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

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

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 in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.