“No matter how big a star, there’s no star who is totally secure, and one of the things that causes such tremendous anxiety is that you have to carry the picture. One headline will say that Hunger Games made $80 million; the other headline says John Carter lost $200 million. The movie industry isn’t an exact science. So with an ensemble, you get a good salary, and when it gets terrible reviews, you can say, ‘I only had one scene, it wasn’t me.'” – director Garry Marshall to Andrew Goldman in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, on why actors like to appear in ensemble movies.