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.

... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad.