Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Everybody likes to win.

There's no smoking section in heaven.

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.