A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

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.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

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 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.

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.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.