L.A. is conventional to a hyper-real degree. It's plastic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
I think L.A. is beautiful.
L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.
L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
Most of my books have something to do with L.A.
L.A. is such an exotic city to me, and it is just a big bubble. If you accept the bubble and accept how isolated it is. It can be a very creative place, and I find it easy to focus.
L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.
I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.
L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.