In Terms Of Screenwriting Adaptations It's Trying

If You're Really A Good Writer And Deserve That Honored Position, Then By God, You'll Write, And You'll Be Read, And You'll Be Produced Somehow. It Just Works That Way. If You're Just A Simple Ordinary Day-to-day Craftsman, No Different Than Most, Then The Likelihood Is That You Probably Won't Make It In Writing.

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.

Do I Want To Start My Own Production Company? No, I Doubt It. I'm Too Old For That. I Don't Want To Start Anything.

You Can Become Much More Independent, Much More Courageous With A Bank Account. And Also, Much More Independent And Self-reliant When You Know You Have Money Behind You.

If You Want To Prove That God Is Not Dead, First Prove That Man Is Alive.