I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

I'm not counting any chickens.

Words fall short sometimes.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

Every couple of years we'll watch the movie and it's like watching home movies, seeing the ranch on-screen. But that movie Heaven's Gate, people are appreciating it more and more as time goes on.

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

Often when I finish a film I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.' And then, thank God, that feeling goes away after a month or so and I'm raring to go again.