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

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

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

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

When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea.

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.