Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

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

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 was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

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

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.