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

I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

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.

A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

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

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