The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record… — Matthew Specktor Business Copy Share Image
Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves. — Matthew Specktor Learning Copy Share Image
I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager. — Matthew Specktor Books Copy Share Image
I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure. — Matthew Specktor Exciting Copy Share Image
I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread. — Matthew Specktor Gains Copy Share Image
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not. — Matthew Specktor Answers Copy Share Image
I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man… — Matthew Specktor Bits Copy Share Image
I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any… — Matthew Specktor Culture Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I… — Matthew Specktor Care Copy Share Image
People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a… — Matthew Specktor Cinema Copy Share Image
Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not… — Matthew Specktor Altars Copy Share Image
I worked in the mail room at CAA when I was in high school. I worked in the literary department, too. That… — Matthew Specktor After school Copy Share Image
We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth… — Matthew Specktor Books Copy Share Image
I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for… — Matthew Specktor Absurd Copy Share Image
Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him. I'm more interested in what's meaningful within the… — Matthew Specktor Certain Copy Share Image
