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

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

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.

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.

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

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