The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail.

Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.