If Your Work Is Going To Draw

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.

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.

Being A Writer Is Like Having Homework Every Night For The Rest Of Your Life.

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.

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.