I Guess Requiem For A Heavyweight As

I Don't Think Playing It Safe Constitutes A Retreat, Necessarily. In Other Words, I Don't Think If, By Playing Safe He Means We Are Not Going To Delve Into Controversy, Then If That's What He Means He's Quite Right. I'm Not Going To Delve Into Controversy. Somebody Asked Me The Other Day If This Means That I'm Going To Be A Meek Conformist, And My Answer Is No. I'm Just Acting The Role Of A Tired Non-conformist.

I Would Guess That The Price Of The Script Really Is Secondary. The Credit Is Much More The Essence.

I'm An Affluent Screenwriter And All That - I'm A Known Screenwriter, But I'm Not In The Fraternity Of The Very, Very Major People. I Would Say A Guy Like Ernie Lehman, William Goldman, And A Few Others Are Quite A Cut Above.

I Don't Enjoy Any Of The Process Of Writing. I Enjoy It When It Goes On If It Zings And It Has Great Warmth And Import And It's Successful.

Writers Vary Tremendously. Was It Tom Wolfe Who Stood Up Or Was It [ernest] Hemingway Who Had To Stand Up? I Don't Know.