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 felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

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.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

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

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.