I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Movies are movies, television is television.

Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.