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"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."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."
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"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."
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"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me."
Art

"I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway."
Science

"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."
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"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories."
Television

"I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention."
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"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."
Fun

"Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is."
Family

"People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom."
People

"The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it."
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"I'd never seen any television before I started."
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