I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing...
If my career continues along its current arc people will probably look at me...
I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the...
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I...
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the...
At the risk of appearing disingenuous I don't really think of myself as...
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just...
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I...
If you work at comedy too laboriously you can kill what's funny in the joke.
James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of...
What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women...
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part...
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything...
I love bad movies whereas going to the theater for me is a painful...
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so...
I find playwriting really painful. I love it or I wouldn't do it but I...
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris...