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

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.

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

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

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

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

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