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

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.

Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.

Protect your garden. Some come as weeds disguised as flowers.

Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal.

Globalization is a fact of economic life

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

I could write a book on the things I've done drunk.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.