It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

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.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

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

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

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.

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