Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

I've always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths. We come in. We don't know anybody or very few people that we work with, but the nature of the job pulls us into a sort of an intimate kind of relationship and communication and then they're gone and it's kind of melancholy. You miss that guy but then suddenly you're working with him again maybe somewhere.

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.