I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The valley we lived in could easily be the setting for a fantasy novel or a prairie western novel. It could be anything.
I have always loved the wild places between the Sierra Nevada range and the Rocky Mountains. The east face of the Sierra Nevada is steep and largely unknown, a wonderful setting.
My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.
As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.
When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.
I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.
I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.
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.
I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.
Visually, I love the setting of suburbia.