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

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 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.

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

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

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.