I'm A New Yorker, You Know.

When You're Working On A Creative Thing, Everyone Has An Idea, And They're Pushing It. The First Time You Work With Anybody, You Have To Get Comfortable With The Way Another Person Pushes Hard For What They Want. Familiarity Breeds Contempt, People Say. But I've Found, For Creative Things, Familiarity Breeds Peace Of Mind, Because You Realize You Know Someone Better. You Trust Each Other. You Know Not To Take Things A Certain Way, Or A Wrong Way. You Get To Where You Don't Have To Waste Quite So Much Time With Diplomacy. Things Are A Little More Efficient.

I Read A Lot Of Scripts And So Many Are Clearly A Knockoff Of One Familiar Genre Or Another.

For Me There's Always A Line Or Two In A Script, When You Hit It You Almost Decide To Do The Whole Movie Off A Line Or Two. You Almost Do It For The Fun Of Getting To Say A Line Or Two Like That. I Don't Have Any Specific Plans, You Know. I Mean, If Seth Rogen Calls With A Great Buddy Pic, I'll Be There.

But At The Same Time, The Film Industry Just Got Torched. The Risk Tolerance For The Types Of Movies We're Talking About Is Lower, And The Reason For That Is That The Captains Of The Industry Were Asleep At The Switch When Their Core Business Was Being Disrupted. And They're Never Getting It Back. In A Way, It Makes It All The More Exciting When The Good Ones Get Through.

To Cite My Own Alma Mater, It's Shocking To Me That Yale University Can Teach What It Teaches At The Yale School Of Environmental Studies And Utterly Fail To Mirror Those Values In Any Way In Its Investment Practices.