When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma.

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies.