Any Story That Billy Wilder Told, You

If Your Work Is Going To Draw From Life, You'd Better Work Very Hard To Keep Up With Reality.

I Want Everything I Do To Have Humor In It, Because It Seems To Me That All Of Life Has That.

It's Against My Programming To Impersonate A Deity.

With Westerns You Have The Landscape Is Important, And It's Empty, And Only You Populate It. When You Populate It, You Can Tell Any Kind Story That Shakespeare Told, You Can Tell In A Western.

The Kind Of Pace That You Want To Use In A Western - Just To Acknowledge The Land In The Distance That Everyone Has To Travel, And The Way Things Develop Sort Of Slowly - It's Almost The Antithetical Of What's Currently Going On In The Movies, You Know.