If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it... devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.