I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

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 want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has 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.

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.