substantial-freud t1_isfhtie wrote on October 15, 2022 at 4:09 PM

Reply to comment by savehoward in TIL that it took several years for writer Bruce Rubin to sell the script to Jacob's Ladder, because it was "too metaphysical" and "Hollywood does not make ghost movies". Rubin would later write the screenplay for Ghost, a box office success that grossed over $500 million. by WouldbeWanderer

“Nobody knows anything. Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess.”
― William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade

”We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
—Decca Recording Company executive Dick Rowe, declining to sign the Beatles in 1962