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

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

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

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

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

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