“For me, the first two movies just didn’t have enough character. Indiana Jones has always been a great character but he has always been this being presented full blown with his leather hat and bullwhip. I felt that, given the opportunity, I could bring an added dimension to the Indy character and basiclaly get inside him and let the audience find out how Indiana Jones became Indiana Jones.”

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade writer Jeffrey Boam talks about fleshing the character out in Starlog magazine #142.