It Has Forever Been Thus: So Long

In Eleven Or Twelve Years Of Writing, Mike, I Can Lay Claim To At Least This: I Have Never Written Beneath Myself. I Have Never Written Anything That I Didn't Want My Name Attached To. I Have Probed Deeper In Some Scripts And I've Been More Successful In Some Than Others. But All Of Them That Have Been On, You Know, I'll Take My Lick. They're Mine And That's The Way I Wanted Them.

An Ingmar Bergman Film Would Probably Owe A Sizeable Bulk Of Its Import And Its Direction And Its Quality To The Directorial End And To The Director Because It's Uniquely A Bergman Film. But That Again Is Not The General - No, That's Much More The Exception Than The Rule.

If You Have The Temerity To Try To Dramatize A Theme That Involves Any Particular Social Controversy Currently Extant. . . Then You're In Deep Trouble.

Coming Up With Ideas Is The Easiest Thing On Earth. Putting Them Down Is The Hardest.

Just Drawing Back And Drawing In; Becoming Narcissistic.