The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.