Billy Wilder on Producers

Producers make you feel that if they weren't so busy with six enormous projects which are going to revolutionize the cinema, they could write it better, they could direct it better, they could compose, they could possibly act in it. The truth is they can't write it, they can't direct it, they don't know how to write a note of music. It's easy. It's like roulette. You've got twenty chips and you put them on various numbers. One or two of those chips are going to be winners. Then they will talk exhaustingly about the two or three chips that make a lot of money. - Billy Wilder on Producers

Addendum:

Addendum:

Politics in the world of comedic art are a great way of lampooning and drawing attention to those who need that kind of attention.

Politics in drama, still definitely a DON'T.

And now, this:

what's it gonna be.

DO NOT MIX

PLEASE REMEMBER. Art and Politics do not mix.

Plays, films, and novels which deal with the unassailable investigate nothing and express nothing save the desire to investigate nothing. It is incontrovertible that deaf people are people, too; that homosexuals are people, too; that it is unfortunate to be deprived of a full happy life by illness or accident; that it is sobering to grow old.

These events, illness, homosexuality, accident, aging, birth defects, equally befall the Good and the Bad individual. They are not the result of conscious choice and so do not bear on the character of the individual. They are not the fit subject of drama, as they do not deal with the human capacity for choice.

-David Mamet

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