Quotes from Powers Boothe

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.

I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.

I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.

I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song.

I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel.

Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.'

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.