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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.