Quotes About Author

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.

I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.

Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

Do you work for the government, any government?" "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Ninety percent of my thoughts are, "How will this work on the radio?"

Going out there and promoting myself socially doesn't really intrigue me. I'd much rather have my work do it for me.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.

The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.

I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.