I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.

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

I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

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.

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand in the wings and watch other people take the curtain calls while his own contributions get lost in the shuffle.