My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

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

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

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.

You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.