Robert Duvall Two Quotations

It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you to meet somebody." So I get Billy Bob from Malvern, Arkansas and Nikita Mikhalkov from Moscow. It's just two big talents meet. We sat for two or three hours and talked. It was great. He's the real deal, this guy.

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

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.