I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

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

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

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

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.