Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.