Paranoia, Back-Stabbing, and all the Other Fun Things We Have to Look Forward To

Ahhhh, Hollywood, Los Angeles, I'm glad to be here and enter this world of bullshit. We've been sort of avoiding it for the past three years, in the safe comforts of film school, but I guess it's inevitable in this town to jump into the darkness of trying to pull each other down if we sense we might be left behind. Why are things like this? I know why - because we make it that way and allow ourselves to think that way and behave that way.

I remember Iqbal saying something really true in 508, he said, "I really, REALLY, don't want to be a hater." But it's almost logical to root for your own film to be "better" than the other ones. How can you not? It's ingrained in human beings, a competitive hostile spirit...

As Werner Herzog said tonight at the New Beverly, the universe is not harmonious at all, it is chaotic, hostile, and murderous.

And so it is. Welcome to the Jungle.