If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

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

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

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.