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

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

100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television. We find them in movies. We find them all over the place.

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

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.