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

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.

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

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.

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

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.