Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

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.

An angel has no memory.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.