People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

It's hard to tell what will stimulate curiosity nowadays because looking at some of the things that do excite people, you kind of go, "Ohh, OK. So this hasn't a chance." But we made it anyway. I think if people see the picture, they'll find a lot of parallels to today, ever since 9/11 and everything, that kind of fear that's going on in disturbance of the country.

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.