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.

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

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

Every 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.

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