These older and wiser guys are digging, trying to get a wagon wheel out of the mud after a storm, and the two younger cowboys -- who are supposed to be helping -- are doing nothing -- just like boys will tend to do, ... It's things like that, that make a movie real.
You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.
I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.