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

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

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

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.