So we’ve got an ex-agent running our studio. What can we say about him? A lot of good things. He’s hardworking. He’s shrewd as hell. He’s got a lot of contacts in the business. He understands a great deal about how the business operates. What he doesn’t understand, generally speaking, is passion. Just as in the old days, when he didn’t care about the film as much as the deal, the same holds true now. He never, most likely, has worked on a film, never written one or produced one, most certainly never directed one. People are coming at him day and night with projects—“I must make this. You must
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