40 years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die... In the intervening period I have had the interesting experience of being a film director. So now, when I watch these films, I'm looking at them from a different perspective... 10,000 Ways to Die is an entirely new book about an under-studied subject, the Spaghetti Western, from a director's point of view.' - Alex Cox'