Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.

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

When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you to meet somebody." So I get Billy Bob from Malvern, Arkansas and Nikita Mikhalkov from Moscow. It's just two big talents meet. We sat for two or three hours and talked. It was great. He's the real deal, this guy.

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.