If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

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

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

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.