People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television. We find them in movies. We find them all over the place.

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

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.