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The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

Movies are an expensive business.

The movie business is a big gamble.

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

I've been in this business 31 years. I've never had a movie deal.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.