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

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

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

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.

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

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.