My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

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."

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

The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.

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

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.