Monday, April 13, 2009

I have a great idea for a movie, but who will make it?

I'm only going to address this issue once, because most of my excellent readers will know this already: Your "great idea" is worthless to everyone but yourself.

Everyone in Hollywood has tons of great ideas. Of those ideas, the percentage that are turned into great screenplays is relatively small. For one, writing is hard and time-consuming. For another, most people are pretty busy already.

Then, of those great ideas that are written into great screenplays, the percentage that is made into great movies is really, really small.

It's great movies that make money. It's great movies that matter.

How much will executives and producers care about your great idea? Not as much as they care about their own great ideas, I promise you! And even their great ideas will probably never become screenplays, which will probably never become movies.

Nobody cares more about these ideas than you. If you don't care enough to write the screenplay, who does?

1 comments:

  1. Wow that was harsh! No one really cares anymore! That’s the biggest problem with America today, no one wants to hear the rest of us. We will not make that way, everyone deserves a chance to be heard!
    keep that in mind!

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