“IF I WERE TO MAKE A FILM ON SANTA Monica, I would make it based on the egregious lack of rights for landlords, because I used to be a landlord in this town, so I would make it, and I would cast Mimi Rogers as a landlord, a person I was in acting class with, and Tom Cruise, her ex-husband, as a landlord, too. And I would have star, as Ken Genser on the City Council, Britney Spears, a real lowlife, in my opinion, or Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 28, 2007. Read the original PDF.