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

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

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.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

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

There's this assumption that as an actor, Hollywood is always the end point, but I never thought along those lines.

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.