Quotes

You can tell any story in a Western. How can you not be fascinated by them?

It's tough 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.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

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

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

You know that after the success of Raiders, nothing was too expensive, and probably nothing was too outlandish, either after that.

I make the kind of pictures I like to see. As it so happens, they're the kind no one else is doing.

To be happy, though, the right kind of work seems essential . I've always felt very fortunate. I have known what I wanted to do since college - and that's rare. I appreciate that.

[1981 comment on Steven Spielberg] He's the Björn Borg of movies. When his mojo is working, there's nobody better. Steve's in touch with a childlike wonder at the way things work -- it's the key to his uniqueness.

You know that after the success of [Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)], nothing was too expensive, and probably nothing was too outlandish, either after that.

It's tough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres--and I've done it a couple of times--it just makes the whole struggle more.

To be happy, though, the right kind of work seems essential. I've always felt very fortunate. I have known what I wanted to do since college--and that's rare. I appreciate that.

[1981 comment on Steven Spielberg] He's the Björn Borg of movies. When his mojo is working, there's nobody better. Steve's in touch with a childlike wonder at the way things work--it's the key to his uniqueness.