If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South.

I probably watch less than one hour of television a week. And when I do watch television, it's usually a football game. Sometimes I'll watch a news broadcast for a few minutes. Otherwise, I don't have time.

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

I don't analyze things like titles.

I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore.

It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.

Partnerships are good engines for narrative.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving.

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.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

The entire elementary school in Rotan, Texas, presented a theatrical production of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.' And the part of Sneezy fell to me.

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

I'm always happy to have a job.

You are going to grow up whether you want to or not. It requires no effort.