When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.

I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.

It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.

I don't like definitions. I like four-hour movies.

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.