I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
From Salman Rushdie
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.
Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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