Whoever would like to look and see what someone is saying behind all the show, glitter, scenery, whatever it may be, and see what ideas are being expressed beyond and below and above that, can do that, as well.

There's my pessimism. Because I didn't know yet that type of film is always going to become more extinct, that there won't be anymore. Because there will always be more films that win five Oscars like Terms of Endearment.

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

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

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.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

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.