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


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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.



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.

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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.



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



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



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



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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.



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