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

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.

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

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

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

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.

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.