I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

I think it's hard for people to suspend the era they live in and understand the decisions that had to be made often during the western frontier era were life and death. You had to be resourceful and on your feet to try to figure out somebody. You didn't have the benefit of knowing who somebody was.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.