I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

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

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.