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My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.
Matthew Specktor
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Matthew Specktor
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: December 21
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I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.
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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 lives of individuals. And fiction will always be central to the lives of certain people, which is all that matters.
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I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.
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I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.
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I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)
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It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time
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Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.
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A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always easy to empathize with privileged people.
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One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.
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Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.
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The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.
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I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.
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100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.
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Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.
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I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.
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I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.
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My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.
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Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!
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The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.
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Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.
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