The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate… — Matthew Specktor Cinema Copy Share Image
You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon… — Matthew Specktor Absolutes Copy Share Image
My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles… — Matthew Specktor Fulfilled Copy Share Image
Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow… — Matthew Specktor Egotistical Copy Share Image
I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books… — Matthew Specktor Book Copy Share Image
A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's… — Matthew Specktor Books Copy Share Image
Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it. — Matthew Specktor Feelings Copy Share Image
These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love. — Matthew Specktor Corporations Copy Share Image
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day. — Matthew Specktor Business Copy Share Image
Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the… — Matthew Specktor Book Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule. — Matthew Specktor Birthday Copy Share Image
I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones. — Matthew Specktor Secret Copy Share Image
My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them. — Matthew Specktor Accepting Copy Share Image
There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can… — Matthew Specktor Believe Copy Share Image
“Even the regular sufferings of fear were better than the ashen grayness of unfeeling, the numbness that had clutched his heart for… — Matthew Specktor Fear Copy Share Image
People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some… — Matthew Specktor Courtesy 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 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 was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager. — Matthew Specktor Books Copy Share Image
Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves. — Matthew Specktor Learning 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
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
I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread. — Matthew Specktor Gains 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
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
