“And there,” as Strother Martin said many years ago in one of my favorite films, “you have it.”
To put it another way, is there any experience anywhere more depressing than pitching a story – any story – in “Hollywood?”
And yet another way:
…It’s also how you write. I truly believe – and my decades (yikes!) of experience bear me out, that the best way to break into the Industry is to write a script so powerful nobody can say “No.”
Of course it’ll help if at that point you can give it to your buddy/spouse/person who owes you money who also is the head of a studio or network or agency.
This one hit us where it hurts. I think cuz we’re so ignorant. (Beatya to it, right?!)
I was struck recently by a comment on my site: