I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.

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

(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.