The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

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.

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television. We find them in movies. We find them all over the place.

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