The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
You become the movie you are making.
My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.