'The Bounty Hunter', with Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe and Rachel Brosnahan, is a 'western', but as he says, it could well be another chapter of the Iliad. John Ford, Akira Kurosawa and Homer himself are his references, his myths and his constants.

'The western is just another way to retell the Odyssey. It is impossible for it to age, or exhaust itself as it says, for the simple reason that it belongs to the very essence of the narrative'