On Location with Westworld (1973)

Michael Crichton: Self

Quotes 

• Michael Crichton : There's a big difference between writing and this kind of thing. Writing's really a solitary occupation. And there's also something anti-social about writing. Directing, on the other hand, is really the opposite. I mean, it's not merely enough to get the best out of yourself. You also have to get the best out of the people you're collaborating with.

• Michael Crichton : I tried the idea of Westworld as a novel, and it didn't work. It's in some way, you know, really a movie. Most of the fantasies about the Wild West, or about medieval Europe, or about Imperial Rome, are *movie* fantasies. I mean, they're not what people got from reading history books; they're what they got from looking at Douglas Fairbanks and John Wayne, and that stuff. So, so in some strange way, it doesn't work on paper at all. It only works - as images.

• Michael Crichton : I don't think the premise is far-fetched at all. In fact, whether or not anybody will actually build a resort like Westworld, exactly like with robots, is more a question - it's not a question of technology, because the technology is essentially there. I mean, if you go see Abraham Lincoln at Disneyland, you know, it's pretty good. And they can do better than that now.

• Michael Crichton : I mean, it's fun!