Douglas McGrath Quotations

You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.

There is nothing quite like 'The Night of the Hunter'. I have never seen a film to which it can be fairly compared.

Since cable got the power and freedom it has, you can explore someone in a way you couldn't in the old days when Mannix was Mannix was Mannix. I thought maybe that Nixon would be an interesting series.

I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.

It's all based on the facts, but there are some things that are unknown, ... It's animated by its own sense of imagination.

It's a movie about the author, Truman Capote,

It has a very prison-like look, ... It also has those fields and cows. It sure is beautiful. It looks like an exhibition hall.

It's about what happened once he got to know the two killers,

In order to tell the story he told, it requires a crafty and quick-thinking person who is not above manipulating the other person's hopes and dreams,

Truman Capote: In which various friends, enemies, acquaintances and detractors recall his turbulent career.