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.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.

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.

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