I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

Baptists are only funny underwater.

Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.