All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.

I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.

History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I talked about living in the past. There's a whole motif in the book of then and now. And I lived there.

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.