Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a ‘Sopranos,'
You have to be a strong advocate of the shows you believe in. Sometimes those skills are very similar to agenting.
Marketing is designed to bring people into something.
Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.
I'm actually totally the prude of my family.
Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel. . . and staying humble.
A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.
I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don’t believe in it, doesn’t go away.
The finest wits have their sediment.