You must always assume that the relationship between writer and producer is that of adversaries - however you slice it. They may be your dearest friends, and they'll invite you to dinner, but when all the smoke clears and the ozone lifts, your enemy is the producer, that's the guy you're competing with, and you have to battle him, just as if you were an adversary.

Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.

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 know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

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.

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.