No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.