Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Movies are movies, television is television.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.