I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”
“For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.”