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

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

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.

When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea.