I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

How lucky are you that you are alive today? Don’t forget to live. Choose to live beautifully

Happy is very abstract, you can't touch it.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

The show must go on all over the place or something.

I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D.

Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

I don’t care what you are, Gem. I want you. I love you.

I believe a good leader brings out the best in people by listening to them, trusting in them, believing in them, respecting them and letting them have a go.