# The Business of Art

... how-to guides, tutorials, FAQs, listicles—they’re all often considered evergreen. But what about evergreen scripts?

Bringing up the subject to a few friends, I realized we all had kept the same deep, dark secrets to ourselves.

Consider them positive thoughts, helpful suggestions, and a few cautionary warnings regarding the pursuit of cinema in Hollywood.

In recent years, as studios scramble to make up for decades of exclusion, I’ve witnessed a troubling trend: diversity has become a commodity, something to acquire and display rather than a reality to embrace.

Did I ever expect it to get made? Nope. Not from the minute I wrote it.

Numbers and processes matter and understanding why and how they matter and how to work with each is fundamental to working smarter not harder.

Are we being noted to death by fear-stricken development execs who are too timid to put something up on screens that swings for the fences ... ?

Andrew Hewitt shares the emotional nature of film scoring, his process with directors, and what he wishes other creatives understood about composition.

If merely one soul had to suffer the indignity that the collection of out-of-work writers below suffered, there might be no chance of recovery.

... you never know who’s going to be inspired by the art that you create. The art you create, creates art.

Those are the victories as an editor, when you get away with something that an audience would never suspect.

What had suddenly seemed like the perfect way to not ruin my career made me now feel insane. I had to find a way out.

AMC, like it or not, stands as the poster child for all the tin-eared thinking that movie theaters are putting out these days ...

... now you have to meet this person—and not just meet them, but impress them so much that they’ll want to give you work now or in the future.

I’m not impatient when there is no need to be impatient. It helps me to have more realistic expectations.