The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.
