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.

Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.