President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.

The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.