Hollywood

“I never quite understood the sort of rules of networking and how you got ahead in Hollywood. There was sort of this lack of meritocracy, right? It just didn't really make sense to me that two hours invested having drinks with this agent would somehow pay off i…”

“The dumbest idea in Hollywood known by all got made and turned out to be a critical darling, and I got nominated for an Oscar, and I thought, wow, that means nobody knows anything. Whether it's movie story, or a tech story, or a consumer story.”

“My whole late teens, early twenties, I only wanted to do global distributed projects. I only wanted to be the lead, and if it was written in any way that made my character, ah, a damsel in distress or a victim, I would always request to alter the role to have …”

“Japan was sort of like the hub at the time to appeal to the Asian market, and Germany was sort of the hub to appeal to the European market, and then obviously North America.”

“Bruce Willis was given six million dollars to star in Die Hard. He was a TV star. When this TV guy leapt to that number, every A-list actor in Hollywood jumped to that number or more.”

“The dumbest idea in Hollywood, known by all, got made and turned out to be a critical darling, and I got nominated for an Oscar, and I thought, wow, that means nobody knows anything. Whether it's movie story or a tech story or a consumer story.”

“The thing I noticed most immediately was that when Work came back. Anybody who had something that they were looking to sell, nobody was buying anything. Nobody. It was like there was a freeze on spending for new, new things.”

“So the idea was obviously most of the time that people have been talking about digital twins, most of that discussion has been in the fear and, oh my God, it's going to be the end of Hollywood and All this disaster and storm is coming.”

“The speech-to-speech of which I, you know, last time I checked, re-speecher was one of the best or the best of those you know, gives you that richness, and it's one of the reasons why a bunch of the Hollywood folks have generally used re-speecher because they'…”

“These AIs do great plot summaries. They do terrible dialogue, for example, among other things, there's lots of room for human beings to fit in and all this stuff.”

“A lot of films now have, you know, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollar visual effects budgets. It's true. They won't have to spend that much on visual effects going forward. It'll be able to be done Much more automatically using these models”

“So I think on the one hand, they're all incredibly excited about the prospect of dramatically increasing the amount of media that they can create for the same cost and accelerate the time to production.”

“I worked there for two years, and I was kind of surprised that nobody in Hollywood paid attention to eyebrows.”

“Hollywood has this habit of, and a lot of industries are guilty of this, but we in the film industry are very guilty of this, spending like drunken sailors, waking up hungover.”