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.

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.

Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

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

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.