Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

Movies are different from real life.

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.