Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea.

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

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.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.