It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
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. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
