If I Could Be Anyone, It Would

Our Pavlovian Response To Movies Has Gotten To Its Lowest Point Ever. You Look At A Lot Of Movies That Are Successful And A Lot Of Movies That Studios Hold Up As Examples And You Go, 'my God, That Isn't Even A Story. It Isn't Even Two Acts. It's Eight Set Pieces Drawn Out With Slow Motion.' The Difficulty For Me Was That You Had To Hope That People Were Interested In This Kind Of A Story.

You’ll Find That The Movie Business Is Paid For By Those Mega Movies. The Movie Business Is Paid For By Big Macs. By Movies As Product. Movie Studios Use That Term “product” All The Time. Product? You Mean You Have A Lot Of Stories? No, We Have A Lot Of Product. You Have Stories.

When You Go And You Tell A Studio And That It's An Ensemble, That Doesn't Mean A Lot To Them. But, My Hats Off To Paramount And Warner Brothers, Because When We Told Them That These Were The Kinds Of People That We Want To Get, Across The Board, They Were Unbelieveably Enthusiastic About It.

What You Learn From That First, And I Don't Call It 'trial By Fire,' I Call It 'baptism By Fire,' Is That You Are Going To Have To Take All Of The Responsibility, Because Basically When It Gets Right Down To It, You Are Going To Get All Of The Blame, So You Might As Well Have Made All Of The Decisions That Led To People Either Liking It Or Disliking It. There's Nothing Worse Than Hearing Somebody Say 'oh, You Made That Movie? I Thought That Movie Sucked,' And You Have To Agree With Them, You Know?

Entertainment Has To Come Hand In Hand With A Little Bit Of Medicine.