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You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

Hollywood studios bury that stuff - actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers over with cars - insanity, criminal behavior. But the studios are invested in that star, they can't have that person's name dirtied up.

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'

Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

I've always maintained my name will not define my films, my films will define my name. But I wish I was called Steve, or something else.