To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

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The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

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There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and...

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I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something...

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There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you...

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I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door,...

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I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies...

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I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes...

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw...

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw...

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The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes...

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I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when...

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they...

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they...

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm...

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm...