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

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.

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

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

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

The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.