When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.