Being A Writer Is Like Having Homework

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.