 Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. |
| Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. |
| What we do as a society is seek simple answers. |
| Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. |
| My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast. |
| One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong. |
| I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. |
| If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. |
| Never, never try to scope the market. |
| I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow. |
| I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. |
| I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society. |
| The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. |
| A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. |
| I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. |
| Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. |
| I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. |
| I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. |
| If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. |
| Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. |
