I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.

What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.