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.

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

I'm a man without a corporation.

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

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

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

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".