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

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

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.

Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

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

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.