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

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

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 mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

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

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