Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

I don't like definitions. I like four-hour movies.

It's nice to be wanted in almost any capacity.

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.