I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.

Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me.

I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

When I see children in New Delhi, babies walking around in no diapers and their mother is in a corner putting up bricks, it gives you a sense of being grounded.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.

You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.