After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.