If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.