We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.