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.

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 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.

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

True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.

Love yourself to love others.

It is common to come across a perfectionist at work. Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate

I got my first flash of titties from a Venezuelan hooker.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

Christ is always faithful. Let us pray to be always faithful to him.

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options." -Bella