You don't need to like your protagonists.

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.