I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.

I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.