Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

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

I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

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.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

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

A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the way they used to talk about movies and, as much as I hate to say it, the way they used to talk about books.