Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.
Matthew SpecktorI sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.
Matthew Specktor100 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 think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.
Matthew Specktor