I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.

My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.