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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.

I Loved Alien, And I Loved Carrie, And I Loved The Exorcist - Those Were Big Movies For Me. They Were Just Brilliantly Done, And Unusual, And They All Took Horror To Some New Place.

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.

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.