What makes a good Western is just a really good Western is just a really good story.

And how well you tell it, of course, is really important.

And who plays in it, and if you cast it properly.

I'm also a big proponent of casting a film properly, regardless of genre.

If you cast it really well, you, and people fit the parts and it captures the imagination,

I think you're halfway there, or more than halfway there. Then you can sort of stay out

of the way. But it's, it's, I just think a good story. I know I've had trouble finding stories over the years

when I wanted to do a Western.

And then when I got unforgiven

back in the early 90s,

well actually I bought it in 1980,

but I did it in 1992.

It was just a unique approach to it.

It was different.

And David Peoples, who wrote it, did just a splendid job,

and I've never found one sense that appealed to me

that would take me to another level.

And everybody says, why don't you do another Western?

But it's easier said than done, because you don't have the material. And if people don't you do another Western? But it's easier said than done because you don't have the material.

And if people don't write an interesting take on it, then it doesn't add up to anything except repeating yourself. The The

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