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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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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them."
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"You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price."
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"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."
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"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life."
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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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"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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

"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."
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"I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor."
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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."
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"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."
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