If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.