Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

Only in your imagination can you revise.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.