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Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.

For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.

There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.