We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!