A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Movies are very subjective.

I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

When you're a professional you gotta do it [your job] when you don't feel like doing it.

Every couple of years we'll watch the movie and it's like watching home movies, seeing the ranch on-screen. But that movie Heaven's Gate, people are appreciating it more and more as time goes on.

I wish I were more disciplined.