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The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is one of my favorite films.

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, more interesting and exciting than the action that is metaphorically representational of those arcs.

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.

When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.