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" I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that, I am both excited and quietly relieved. "

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" 'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers. "

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" Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy. "

" You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set. "

" All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it. "

" I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults. "

" From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood. "

" I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made. "