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

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

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.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.