Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.