Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.