I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually

I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!