I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.

[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.