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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.

Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they're not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an older demographic that controls seven to 10 trillion dollars. And the producers and distributors have convinced themselves this group doesn't go to the movies.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.