100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.
Matthew SpecktorI heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."
Matthew SpecktorI sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.
Matthew SpecktorI think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.
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