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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.

Mind is your greatest asset..

Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens to blues and rock, it's universal. Everyone dances.

L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for