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.

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

I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for example, that LA was absurd, worthy of ridicule and contempt. Most people seem to describe Los Angeles as elementally despicable, or as someplace that requires an apology.

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.

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

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.