One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.
A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.
Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.
Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.
Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.
That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.
The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.
The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.
We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.
