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

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.

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.

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

An angel has no memory.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.