Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.