It costs a lot to build bad products.
It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
Unproductive effort is never a good thing.
Sometimes a certain project will have a smell... It will have a little stench about it. That is a warning signal. You know it's going to be a nightmare. You know they are not going to like it, and it's not worth it.
My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive.
When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.
You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.
Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.
No one bought my screenplays.
They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
