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Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

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

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

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

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.