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

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

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.

I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through [one's own] experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.