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"But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to."
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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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"Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you."
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"Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening."
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"It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be."
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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."
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"You can never get enough of what you don't want."
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"I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do."
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"I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that."
Humor
"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."
Shakespeare
"The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know."
Movies
"That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style."
Time
"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."
Movies
"The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that."
Movies
"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."
Adventure
"I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes."
Horror
"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."
Man
"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life."
Life
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