It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.

Love may be the answer, but even though you're watching for the solution, intercourse raises some rather interesting thoughts.

You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

The baby is fine. The only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.

None of the arts are any good unless you really are great at them.

I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?