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

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

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

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

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

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.

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.