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When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.

I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

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

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.