It obviously informs it on every front. I revise endlessly, though, trying to get it right. Certain filmmakers have had a huge influence on me, particularly Podovkin and other Russians. Podovkin's theory was to build the film brick by brick. To me that's what art is all about.
People are very attracted to western writing right now, for many reasons.
The western film, which I am very fond of, reenacts the end of the frontier over and over again and is very rich in its iconography and what it has to say about the American psyche. We both want to grow up and we don't. If you look at a classic western, though, the ultimate scene is when the hero walks down main street to confront his fate. One of the most powerful westerns ever written was The Misfits by Arthur Miller. She's right, but she can't win, which is both poignant and tragic.