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

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

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.

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

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

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.