Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.

Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.

I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.