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I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.