'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.
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.
People respond to real problems from the heart.
