The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

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.

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

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

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.