The Millions Interview
October 20, 2011
Robert Birnbaum in Conversation with John Sayles 6
by Robert Birnbaum
“For a filmmaker to have made 17 movies in 35 years is pretty good. And most of them — we don’t always have enough money to do them justice, but most of them, there was no fighting a rear guard action against a studio to change things or tell you who to cast or whatever, so I have been really lucky.”
October 4, 2011
“Horrible things happen everywhere”: The Millions Interview with Craig Thompson 5
by Paul Morton
“There’s a very offensive Islamophobia that happens in the media. But then there’s also this overly-PC, liberal reaction to tiptoe around a lot of subjects which I think is its own form of insult.”
September 26, 2011
The Millions Interview: Nikolai Grozni on Music, Misfits, and Mythology 1
by Lauren Elkin
“I love the first person, in writing, in music, and in life. All great modern novels, as far as I am concerned, are in the first person.”
September 8, 2011
Robert Birnbaum and Darin Strauss 3
by Robert Birnbaum
“I wanted to write about the young me as I would write about a character in a novel. And look at all that person’s flaws and hold them up to the light. Because I think that’s what we get out of good fiction, too. Good fiction teaches you how to live.”
September 1, 2011
It’s All For Keeps: David Vann on Truth, Fiction, and How We Find Out Who We Are 4
by Mark O'Connell
“I do have the same sense about my real life that I have about my fiction, which is that I make all these decisions but I have no idea why I’m doing what I’m doing. That life is essentially shaped by the unconscious in the same way that fiction is.”
August 17, 2011
The Millions Interview: Geoff Dyer on the London Riots, the Great War, and the Gray Lady 7
by Bill Morris
“I always have faith in this idea that if I remain honest and open about my own confusion, the blurriness of my impressions – it’s not because I’m short-witted or stupid – the chances are those feelings will be shared by other people.”
