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I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

My hand does the work and I don’t have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It’s like a dam in the brain that bursts.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

It’s very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.