I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always asked me, "How much do you make?"

I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.

The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.