I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

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

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

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.

My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television. We find them in movies. We find them all over the place.