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.

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

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

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

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.