An angel has no memory.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

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.

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

I like to work at night.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.