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

Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television. We find them in movies. We find them all over the place.

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

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