I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

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

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 think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

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.