Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.

I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

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.

Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.

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

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.