I Didn't Really Want To

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 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.

With Westerns You Have The Landscape Is Important, And It's Empty, And Only You Populate It. When You Populate It, You Can Tell Any Kind Story That Shakespeare Told, You Can Tell In A Western.

Being A Writer Is Like Having Homework Every Night For The Rest Of Your Life.

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.