Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.

Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar.

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.