You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.
People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in the film industry of having whether its agents, lawyers, actors, or whoever calling up all night.
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.