We need art more than ever right now, and the business of art is doing everything it can to end the art of art. Advocacy is worthy. I'm not the guy for it. Devotion is also worthy. That one I can do. I'll keep making things and meaning them.

The waiting between jobs is not: - a gap in the work - a sign you're doing it wrong - something to grit your teeth through It's a recurring condition of the work. The best creatives aren't the ones who avoid it. They're the ones who tolerate it.

A concert pianist practices 30 years and no one can play for him the way he plays for others. That's my business right now. Part of me wants the ladder back. Part of me is curious. Trying to make sense of “the business is changing” in my new post, below -

I’m running for mayor of Hollywood.* Not the title Tom Cruise has. The other one. Here’s my entire platform: *doesn't actually want this job

I always hated “It’s not show friends, it’s show business.” But watching the Paramount merger reminds me that it’s still true. When the pie shrinks, the economy of friends gets an audit. And you find out what kind of loyalty you have. More below -

Every person has one story only they can tell. Most die with them. Last week Glen Powell kissed a stranger's baby on College Game Day - and gave that mother a story she will tell the rest of her life. It made me go looking for mine. I found it in 2002..