Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.

I try not to look for messages in films.

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

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.

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.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

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.