“I worked in the mail room at CAA when I was in high school. I worked in the literary department, too. That was my after school job, believe it or not: I would read manuscripts and then evaluations on whether or not I thought they'd make good movies. Which was fascinating and kind of hilarious to me at the time.” BelieveKindSchoolJobsRoomsHigh SchoolDepartmentFascinatingMailManuscriptsGood MovieEvaluationAfter School Author:Matthew Specktor
“People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.” PeopleThinkingKindEconomicModelsStudiosCollapseClosingEconomic Models Author:Matthew Specktor
“These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.” PeopleThinkingKindRealCorporations Author:Matthew Specktor
“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.” WantGivingWritingKindBookDifferentAuthorityDifferent KindsOverratedPowerlessness Author:Matthew Specktor
“I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.” FeelsWritingKindSelfHardEasyConsciousnessSelf ConsciousnessEasy To Get Author:Matthew Specktor
“There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.” WritingWellsKindArtImportantIdeasArt IsBetrayalSuperiorsGarbagePerverseness Author:Matthew Specktor
