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

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.

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

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

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

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.