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

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

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

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

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

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.