Any Story That Billy Wilder Told, You

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 Didn't Really Want To Do Another Sequel. I Go To Those Movies, And I Just Sort Of Enjoy Them Like A Viewer.

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

But, George And Steven Asked Me To Write The Indiana Jones Sequels, And I Didn't Want To.

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.