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

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

I like to work at night.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

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

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

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.