The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
Jews have always controlled the business. . . The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada. . . is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.
Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.
Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.