I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up interacting.

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

[M*A*S*H] didn't get released by FOX, it escaped.

Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.