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I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.