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Each time you see a Western movie, it's a good reflection of where things are in the world at that time. It's probably one of the purest forms of cinema that really tells you where the world is.

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.

Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

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.

If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.