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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.