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

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

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 think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

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.