All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

I'm grateful for the life I have. I lived bad for many years, and I've got a great life now. I've got the kind of life people only dream about.

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

You try to learn who you are. You work hard. You've either got it or you don't when it comes to writing books. And you tend to only get these things if you want them, and want them to the exclusion of everything else.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.