Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously.
I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... ."
I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?
Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.
You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.