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“To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.”
“I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.”
“I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.”
“I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'”
“I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.”
“I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!”
“One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.”
“Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?”
“Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I love working in Texas anywhere.”
“I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife.”
“You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.”
“I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.”
“The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.”
“Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.”
“Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.”
“I try not to look for messages in films.”
“I had a wonderful career.”