Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.
I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.
I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
