"I'm a filmmaker. I make movies. That's what I do."

"I'm a big fan of Westerns. I think they're America's greatest art form."

"Once the movie gets going, once the lights go down, you become a collective. There's you by yourself, but then there's all of you together. And then you start appreciating the movie in that way."

"I'm a big fan of spaghetti westerns. They're my favorite genre."

"If you have the passion to do it, and you do it and it doesn't work out—I worked for 3 years on a 16mm movie that became nothing but guitar picks. And I was very disappointed when I realized it wasn't…"