I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarc….

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because….

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing..

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them -….

I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so that delusion went on for a lo….

Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff..

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good..

I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy, it wasn't easy to do, but I fell into it.….

Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: ….