Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.

There's no smoking section in heaven.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.