Kurt Russell proved Hollywood wrong by ditching LA decades before the celebrity exodus began

"I wanted to eventually get into the ranching life."

The "Tombstone" star caught noted that his decision to leave Hollywood at the time wasn't a popular option within the entertainment industry.

"I wasn't escaping. I was just living where I live," he said. "I was fortunate that it really didn't make any difference.

"But when I did it, nobody else was doing that. I had many people tell me, 'Well, that's goodbye. That's it.' I said, 'Well, we'll see.'"

He's witnessed the exodus out of the City of Angels in the years since he chose a more relaxed lifestyle in Colorado with his family.

"I don't dislike L.A.," he said. "It's just not my preference in terms of how I like to live my life."

He added, "You've got to understand something about the area of Old Snowmass. Everybody who lives there, they live there because they want to. I can't say that about L.A."

Russell said that life in Colorado for his children is "very different from living in the city."

He compared the quiet country life to how he "grew up in Maine."

"I suppose, once you're exposed to that kind of thing, it's always home," Russell said.

"Everything we did there in terms of what we built and what we have in terms of being able to offer in life for our children, I'm really, really happy that we were able to do that."

"What I enjoy most is that [Hawn] really likes it in Colorado," Russell said. "Wyatt and Meredith and their two boys, they live in Colorado now. So we like to spend as much time there as we can."

"We came back and went in the house. I went up to the stairs and I walked into my closet. I just lost it," Hawn said. "They had broken in from the balcony to our bedroom, our closets."

Hawn added, "And they completely knocked down my door, which is a safe door, so they're very, very sophisticated, and they got a lot of my goodies, if you know what I mean."

Four months later, Hawn was alone at home with just her dog when she heard a startling noise in another room.

"I hear this big thump upstairs - and I was alone; Kurt wasn't there - and I went, 'What the hell was that?'" she said. 

"It was just like, was that a sonic boom? Did somebody jump somewhere? And as it turned out, the next day, we discovered that they were trying to get in my bedroom while I was in the house."

Fox News Digital's Janelle Ash and Stephanie Giang-Paunon contributed to this report.