By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I write to find out what I think.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.