"Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that."
Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist known for literary nonfiction and essays on American culture and politics. Her major works include Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The Year of Magical Thinking.