My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

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

I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.

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

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

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

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.