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savehoward t1_is5kg38 wrote

I think this says more about how a small number if movie execs know less about which scripts are good rather than a writer’s ability to write well.

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substantial-freud t1_isfhtie wrote

“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

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