There are a lot of actors who try to get records made and try to make record deals, and everybody goes, 'Ugh.' It used to be expected in the entertainment business. I mean look at Sinatra, Bing Crosby. All these guys started out as singers.

When you're dealing with the entertainment business, a business that deals with marketing and ratings and profit, you have to be suspicious. You get ratings by touching on stereotypes, the titillating subjects people talk about — their anxieties, fears, longings and desires. That's why hip-hop sells. But at the same time, I don't believe in censorship.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

The filmed entertainment business has just gotten tough,

In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.