I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

The first must that any director has is to not force his public.

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.