Matthew Specktor (born 1966) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.
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.
It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time
The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate. There's a line in Jonathan Franzen's essay "Perchance to Dream" about how "the rich lateral dramas of local manners have been replaced by a single vertical drama, that of commercial generality. " I wanted to examine that great homogenizing force that came in during the '90s, since Hollywood seemed a place where it was particularly active.