One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
In doing the screenplay for 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the opposition would argue. So I had to keep reading all the books and articles about why McCarthy is such a good guy.
Kevin McCarthy is a good man.
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.
I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard.