There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

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.

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

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.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.