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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.

My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

I always wanted to do a Western.

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.