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The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.

So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.

Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.