You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

I think it's hard for people to suspend the era they live in and understand the decisions that had to be made often during the western frontier era were life and death. You had to be resourceful and on your feet to try to figure out somebody. You didn't have the benefit of knowing who somebody was.

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.

I just tried to build on my failures.