"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."
"The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it."
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Source: Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. Ocober 6, 2003.
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