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

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

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

A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the way they used to talk about movies and, as much as I hate to say it, the way they used to talk about books.

I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)

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.

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