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.

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

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

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

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.

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.