'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.