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
A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about… — Matthew Specktor Book Copy Share Image
I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the… — Matthew Specktor Movie 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 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
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
I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about… — Matthew Specktor Business 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
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 Fiction 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 Copy Share Image
I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to… — Matthew Specktor Consciousness Copy Share Image
My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of… — Matthew Specktor 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
100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
