Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best..

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories….

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the ….

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless ….

I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people t….

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values..

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries..

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book..

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda..

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat.

I like to work at night..

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way..

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer..

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of..

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick….

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers..

An angel has no memory..

I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing..

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on..

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party..

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian..