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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

I don't know why I write what I write.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

All of my books come from pain.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

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