•  "I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier."

•  "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 like to do things that I develop from the ground up."

•  "I think you've just got to tell it like it is."

•  "I tried to mix the non-actors with the actors. I didn't want to come in and tell them what to do. I wanted them to show me what they do."

•  "I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment."

•  "I was always attracted to these cowboy men when I lived back in Montana as a boy."