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 like being around people that mean what they say.

True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.

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.

Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it?

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.