•  "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."

•  "The shorter the film the more showings you can get and the more money it would make. But some things I didn't want to lose."

•  "There was nothing wrong with shouting at God."

•  "To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part."

•  "Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."

•  "Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic."

•  "We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter."

•  "We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible."

•  "You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich."

•  "You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play."