I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.
The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.