Any Story That Billy Wilder Told, You

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.

But, George And Steven Asked Me To Write The Indiana Jones Sequels, And I Didn't Want To.

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.

Any Story That Billy Wilder Told, You Can Tell In A Western.

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.