In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.

It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.

You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie.

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.