Before I'd Written Movies, I Never Could

I Don't Know What I Think Until I Write It Down.

Before I Started Working On A Computer, Writing A Piece Would Be Like Making Something Up Every Day, Taking The Material And Never Quite Knowing Where You Were Going To Go Next With The Material. With A Computer It Was Less Like Painting And More Like Sculpture, Where You Start With A Block Of Something And Then Start Shaping It.

California Is A Place In Which A Boom Mentality And A Sense Of Chekhovian Loss Meet In Uneasy Suspension; In Which The Mind Is Troubled By Some Buried But Ineradicable Suspicion That Things Better Work Here, Because Here, Beneath The Immense Bleached Sky,is Where We Run Out Of Continent.

Details Are Our Business As Writers. Your Heart Leaps When You See A Detail That Can Go Somewhere

Hand That On Parting Squeezes Your Shoulder, Salutes The Small Of Your Back.