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.

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.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

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

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.