I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

I like to work at night.

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.

An angel has no memory.

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

He who is unable to live in society or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself must be either a beast or a god.

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.

You see a comic, and you're like, 'Oh wow: the Riddler has been drawn this way, and he's been drawn that way.' There are tons of looks, and his personality changes based on who's writing them.

I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.

The good of man is the active exercise of his souls faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue or if there be several human excellences or virtues in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because writing for film and television and graphic novels is all very different. So I've never had the feeling of, 'Oh, you have to do this one thing.'

It is your response to winning and losing that makes you a winner or a loser.

Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.

Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

I think looks do matter on television.

I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.