I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.

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

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

Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

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.

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.

In Boston terms I was everyone and no one, with no social investment, no social insecurity, sort of Imitation of Christ in one hand and The Education of Henry Adams in the other, and because I was part of nothing I could observe everything without having anything personal invested in the findings.