The second best-kept secret in showbiz is that it’s a business. The first is that, like all businesses, although talent is a necessity, power always prevails. And guess what? – looks like even H’wood’s biggest booster pub, The Hollywood Reporter, agrees:
by Phil Stutz as told to Pamela McClintock
Phil Stutz, who tends to some of the town’s top studio executives, explains the need to make decisions quickly, alone and on instinct, and “microtransactions” that get you respect — even when you’ve been fired.
Each person has potential for power. Because I’m interested in the philosophy of this, I have ended up treating a lot of studio executives; they make up 15 to 20 percent of my patients. Most aren’t realistic about what the job is actually going to be.