For Civilization To Survive, The

There Are A Lot I'm Proud Of, And A Lot I Wish The Hell I'd Never Written.

You Could Do Much More In Movies Than You Could On Tv, And Even Movies Were Heavily Censored. But In Television, The Areas Of Timorousness Were Fairly Laid Out. Race Relations. Sex. Politics. There Was A Whole Conglomeration Of Taboo Themes. And Even To Date, Though Television Has Become A Much Freer Medium, It's Still Far Less Free, Far Less Creatively Untrammeled Than Are The Movies. They're Infinitely More Adult In That Respect.

I Have Compromised Down The Line. I've Disliked It Intensely In The Old Days When You Were Trying To Talk Race Relations And They Would Not Allow You To Talk About The Legitimacies Of Race Relations. In The Old Days, You Didn't Talk About Black, You Talked About Eskimo Or American Indian, And The American Indian Was Assumed Not To Be A Problem Area.

I Don't Know What My Friends Do. Generally They Become Producers. That Way They Can Stop Writing!

I Think Willa Cather Did A Short Story Called "paul's Case," And In It, When He Finally Commits Suicide, It Says, "he Surrendered To The Black Design Of Things." And That's What I Anticipate Death Will Be: A Totally Unconscious Void In Which You Float Through Eternity With No Particular Consciousness Of Anything. I Think Once Around Is Enough. I Don't Want To Start It All Over Again.