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

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

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

I like to work at night.

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

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

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.