I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.