I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

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.

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

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.

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.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.