In a Western, you don't over-explain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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.
When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.
In the West, you take people at their word.
The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
You don't get to make Westerns every day.
I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.