Filmmaker John Sayles, author of Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan, Sayles on Sayles and Gusanos, talks with Don Swaim in this 1991 interview about the movie industry. Sayles explains some idiosyncracies that are helpful to know, including the different creative problems involved in writing a book and writing a movie script. Also, he speaks about different writing styles and why he learned Spanish to write Gusanos.

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio.