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.

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.

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

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.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created.

Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.