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.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

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

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

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

I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.