As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

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.

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.