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

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

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

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.