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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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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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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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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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"I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos."
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"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."
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"It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing."
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"I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective."
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"I just want to be more regular."
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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."
Movies
"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."
Experience
"But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to."
Want
"I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies."
Movies
"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."
Struggle
"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 haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes."
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"What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime."
Hope
"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life."
Life
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