I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item in its own way - not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.

Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.