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.

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the areas of timorousness were fairly laid out. Race relations. Sex. Politics. There was a whole conglomeration of taboo themes. And even to date, though television has become a much freer medium, it's still far less free, far less creatively untrammeled than are the movies. They're infinitely more adult in that respect.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes.

Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.