If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it ended up - the experience and, I believe, the film - better than I could ever have hoped for.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.

There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.