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.

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

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.

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

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

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.