I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern for me, as for many people, but it's nowhere near as central to the culture as it used to be.

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.

Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.