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

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.

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.

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.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

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