The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.