In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

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?

In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.

I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.

The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.