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

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

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

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.

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

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