- Somehow, writing is more respectable. And the fortunate thing is that I've done OK.
- Young writers are always intimidated by everyone the director, the producer, the studio, the agent. But the thing that the young writer has over the established writer is that he's an unknown quantity.
- I did the treatment for Boulevard Nights (1979) as a class assignment. Paul Schrader pulled me aside and told me how commercial it was. Strange because it was personal, I didn't think it would sell. Later. he helped me get an agent for it, even though I ultimately made the deal myself.
- Paul Schrader is an incredibly fine teacher, very concerned with structure and form. He would tear apart each script scene by scene to show how to work the build. But, more than that, he taught me that it's the writers who take the risks who are great.
- Bombastic writing often shows the best as well as the worst in a writer. It's crude, but it's also daring.
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