Improvise, Adapt And Overcome!

When You're Making A Movie, You Can't Think Anybody Will Ever See It. You've Just Got To Make A Movie For The Values It Has. The Greatest Films Were Made Because Someone Really Wanted To Make Them. And, Hopefully, The Audience Will Show Up, Too.

Westerns. A Period Gone By, The Pioneer, The Loner Operating By Himself, Without Benefit Of Society. It Usually Has Something To Do With Some Sort Of Vengeance; He Takes Care Of The Vengeance Himself, Doesn't Call The Police. Like Robin Hood. It's The Last Masculine Frontier. Romantic Myth. I Guess, Though It's Hard To Think About Anything Romantic Today. In A Western You Can Think, Jesus, There Was A Time When Man Was Alone, On Horseback, Out There Where Man Hasn't Spoiled The Land Yet.

I've Always Told My Son Scott The Same Thing: Don't Rush Into Anything, Because There's Gonna Be A Lot Of Fish In The Sea. You Can Be One Of The People That's Lucky Enough Not To Become A Loser Two And Three And Four Times Over Like People Do, Just By Being A Little More Patient.

I Think As You Get Older, You Find You Can Play More Things Because You're Moving To A Different Category. You Play A Certain Thing As A Younger Man, Playing Action Roles Like I Did. Then I Moved Out, And I Kept Trying To Do Different Things All The Time.

As You Get Older, You Change Certain Things.