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.

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

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've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

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

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

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.