Wolfgang Hammer

Maybe that's enough too.

I think everything is about status.

Every scene is about status.

Every scene is about a power differential.

It's what we find relentlessly fascinating.

Every interaction is about status.

There's a sort of story about, I think it was a British actor who knew absolutely everyone in English society and for some reason was unsuccessful.

at getting what they wanted.

And he said when he overplayed his status, he would be hated.

When he underplayed his status, he wouldn't get what he wanted.

Everyone liked him, but he wouldn't get what he wanted.

When he matched status, he would get whatever he asked for.

It's a sense of accepted superiority vis-a-vis another, whether it's physical, societal, or moral.

I'm building a film studio from scratch.

Mitch Lasky is my chairman and A16Z is my investor, including Mitch.

Mitch Lasky is a former partner at Benchmark and comes from the video game world.

And Mark Andreessen is obviously a

great lover of cinema and have seen absolutely everything.

And the quest is twofold, trying to make movies in a very traditional sense that, at least for me personally, have an aspiration towards some kind of epiphany or some kind of transcendental insight, even if it's very brief, or maybe show some kind of transformation possible around these philosophical principles.

And then there are two sort of