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

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.

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.

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

Scribblings of love are on your heartSo you think you can find it anywhere...Darling please beware not everyone has your heart.

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

Our family love is so special, and I truly believe it is due to our work and dedication to communication and patience.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

What I need most of all is certainty.

I voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger 'cause I figured he can go back in the future. Put that in the act.

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.