Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.

You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.