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

Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him. I'm more interested in what's meaningful within the lives of individuals. And fiction will always be central to the lives of certain people, which is all that matters.

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

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.

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

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

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