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

Lawrence Kasdan

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.

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

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.

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.