I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.