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If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

There is a vast difference in the pay package of every actor. Actors are also exploited at various levels, but when we are established, we get paid fairly well. But at times, if an actor asks for a hike, he/she may even get boycotted.

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.