“There have been many various instances when folks wished to do one thing. I don’t know, I’m a film man. You have to grasp, that from my viewpoint, whether or not it’s Elvis, or Snake Plissken, or Jack Burton, or R.J. MacReady, that was that challenge. That was that factor. You get into that mindset. You create that. You need to make that world occur…
…I wasn’t occupied with increasing financially off of one thing that we had created, or that I had created when it comes to a personality…
..That’s not written by John. That doesn’t odor proper. John’s not right here to do that. I’m not gonna do this. Let’s go do one thing new, let’s do one thing contemporary, let’s go create one other iconic character, reasonably than saying ‘What can we bleed off this iconic character?’”
