I have often wondered what would have happened to him if he'd left Hollywood and went back to plays, developing each one as a property. That is what I'm doing. I have taught myself marketing, directing, producing and writing. I am not just some college professor type hawking scripts. Yes, but the reason most don't do both jobs is that if you only do one you can always blame the other guy for the failure.
Fear drives big time movie making.
I can and do take my own hits. This isn't the 18th century. There is nothing romantic about being oblivious to the present market, where little kids know which shows are hits and which are not. If I can't answer one part of the equation, I don't write the script. There are executives in Hollywood that don't think out their decisions that far.