Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.

Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.

There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreating where you grew up. It's strange and stimulating.

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