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

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

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.

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

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.

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