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

I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles.

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

When you're wide open, the world is a good place.

I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

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

I love Westerns!

I have come East to find what the public likes.