And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.