In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That's why it was bought.

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

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

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

I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.

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

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