Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.

The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end.

All my movies are achingly personal.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.