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You have to be a star to be in this business.

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.