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

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

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.

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

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

Everybody likes to win.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.