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

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

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!

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

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.

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.

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."