But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

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.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

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.