There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.

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