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

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

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.

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.

I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

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