How to Be a Successful Writer

"I spend most of my time while I'm directing trying to find a chair," he says. "Get as short a deadline as you possibly can from anyone that's willing to pay you for anything, because if they give you nine months, you will find out what happens to your body if you masturbate for eight months and three weeks" He talks about working with Richard Donner on Scrooge: "He just throws me a pillow and he goes, take a lot of naps."