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I'm happy for the money. I'm happy for the exposure... Every once in a while there's lightning in a bottle like with 'L.A. Confidential (1997)' so we'll see what happens with The Black Dahlia (2006). Even bad movies create substantial readership for your books.

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime writer who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Lev Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Ludwig van Beethoven is to music.

[on Ludwig van Beethoven] The greatest artist ever given to earth by God.

My novel The Black Dahlia (2006) will be poorly filmed in March of next year by overrated auteur Brian De Palma. Fatuously good-looking Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson will weakly star in this vehicle. The production designer is Dante Ferretti who production designed most of the great Scor-sleazy movies, so it will look very good and it will be shot by the esteemed Vilmos Zsigmond. I predict an intriguing flop...that will nevertheless sell me a shitload of books.

[on Zodiac (2007)] One of the half-dozen greatest American crime films.

We're still evolving. God's not finished with us yet.