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I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

If I wasn't the head of a studio, who would talk to me?

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I've performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I've also exited pretty fast from them. It's just not my place. I'd rather get their adulation in a cinema hall.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.