if the interview can't be found now, then would have to assume that the writer was reading the BFP a few years ago and is drawing on it without actually referencing it or asking Scott about it . . . 
dunno . . think I'm going to stay with the idea that the writer was just venting his  personal hostility toward anything <i>he</i> considers too commercial. (i.e. Hollywood, media circus  ).  JMHO of course,