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.
Matthew SpecktorEvery snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.
Matthew SpecktorGood fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.
Matthew SpecktorI've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.
Matthew Specktor