It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

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.

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

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