I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you’re an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

Hill distinguishes between craft and fame, arguing that public recognition is incidental to the work rather than its purpose. The quote critiques a celebrity-driven culture that treats actors’ public visibility as a commodity to be “leveraged” into other products (like books), and it pushes back against the assumption that artists are motivated by attention. Implicitly, he frames acting as a vocation oriented toward making films, not building a personal brand. The statement also signals discomfort with the loss of privacy and the moral suspicion attached to celebrity entrepreneurship, insisting on a separation between artistic identity and the marketplace of fame.