I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

That love of movies is very much alive in me.

Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so for who knows how long, because of the basic thing we love about movies, which is storytelling and performances.

It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.

We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.