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

When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea.

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.

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.

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

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

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.