The first must that any director has is to not force his public.
I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.
It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.
Young people of this century, like my son, didn't live through all those things that went on during that period of time, from 1930 to 1950. They're missing that experience. To go from a bicycle to a vehicle that takes somebody to the moon - only we saw this kind of thing.
It's very difficult to be original.
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.