In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.