I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

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 mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

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

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

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.