What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.