One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

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

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.

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

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.