Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical, it comprehended, you know, just about everything that you can think of.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.

Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.