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

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

I like to work at night.

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

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

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

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.