Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

Nice is different than good.

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.