Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.