The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.