I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!

Unforgiven, I think, is the best Western ever.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.