You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.
What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.
We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.
It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.
If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.
What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.
I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.
It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.
We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
I try not to look for messages in films.
Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.
Well, I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife.