You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the areas of timorousness were fairl….

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep troubl….

I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the….

I'm an affluent screenwriter and all that - I'm a known screenwriter, but I'm not in the fraternity of the very, very major people. I would say a guy….

I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months.….

According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular and private hel….

An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director ….

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears..

I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no….

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity d….

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized..

I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He surrendered to the black design….

In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a d….

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social critici….

You unlock the door with the key of imagination..

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal..

I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing..

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is..

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date..

The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined….

I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants..