A Boat Against the Current

“Movies are visceral as well as intellectual. Unless you give someone a CD to listen while reading a book you don’t have the same experience...

“Every movie is a world. When you enter that world you should learn very quickly what are the rules of this world. I often use Steven Spielb...

“[When writing for independent film producer Roger Corman], [h]e would always say, ‘Oh, don’t worry about the budget.’ Then the poor directo...

Sept. 5, 1980—With a simultaneous prominent spot at the Toronto Film Festival to go along with a wider release in the U.S., The Return of th...

“In 1980, I covered the Republican National Convention in Detroit for a magazine [ The New Republic ]. The Republicans put most of their...

“A script is to a movie as a blueprint is to a building. So many of the things that will later be major, visceral aspects of the story...

“I did this script called Watch the Skies, where the last page is about an extraterrestrial being left behind on Earth. It became the first ...