Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.