If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

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.

Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue - the sky

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.

If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.