If Your Work Is Going To Draw

With Westerns You Have The Landscape Is Important, And It's Empty, And Only You Populate It. When You Populate It, You Can Tell Any Kind Story That Shakespeare Told, You Can Tell In A Western.

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.

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.

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.

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