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

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.

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

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

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.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

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