I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.