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.

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

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

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.

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.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.