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

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

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.

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

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.