The range of what people might be doing on Labour Day varies considerably…
It’s the transitional Labour Day weekend, so here’s celebrating with more enriched clichés (with the originals in italics):
The ‘Players’ – a director’s view:
“I believe that great writing makes great stories, and great stories make great films. I start from that, so I really don’t move until I trust the material that I have in my hands… There’s a totem pole in Hollywood for sure, about who they want to entrust certain material to. The more successful you are with your films financially, the more access you have to better material. (more…)
Still summertime, still more enlivened clichés (with the originals in italics):
the watch of time 
Memorable Quotes: Tales of Screenwriters – Part Twenty
The Rules – the new reality:
(a) “A corporate style of conducting business has been imposed upon the movie industry, which used to leave room for the disruptions of talent. It is stunning to see how cleverly everything has been assigned a number value, and any idea
is immediately dissected into numbers representing the stars, the subject matter, the possible disposition of it in various media, countries, ancillaries…it totally neglects whether it’s going to be done well or not.” (more…)
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