I Really Liked Carrie A Lot. That

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.

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 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.

If Your Work Is Going To Draw From Life, You'd Better Work Very Hard To Keep Up With Reality.

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.