The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

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

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

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.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

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