I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

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 think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

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

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

There's so much work in making movies, it's so easy to tear one down. When I watch a movie, even one that I don't particularly enjoy, I'm constantly impressed at the work that's in it. I respect the craftsmen and women. I tolerate a lot of movies that maybe other people don't, just because I know what goes into them.

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.