There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.