It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.