Great post, Scott. Forget the odds... the horror stories... the hard-luck stories... the "they just don't want to make good movies" whining... the excuses... the doubts... and sit your ass down in that chair... and, like Nike says, just do it! Put one word in front of another and another and another until you got that thing you were after... the thing that you knew was inside you... the thing that's been gnawing to get out... the great story! It's time to get scribbling!

Awesome, Scott!

i don't have any connections to the business, and this makes perfect sense to me and is what i've always thought...the biggest problem is not your lack of networking or luck, the biggest problem is that your script just isn't good enough

Thank the heavens above for TBOS! Just what I needed to hear today. And back to the writing. :D

Sounds logical to me. Supply and demand, basics of economics; if you've got something they want, they will buy. Simples.

Truly inspiring!

Glad you posted this now instead of later. The "bitching/but" bug bit me square in the ass a while back and I couldn't shake it. Time to turn things around!

No one would argue that bad movies don't get made. Hollywood is looking for concepts that sell, not necessarily great scripts. And, as has been said many times- 'Nobody knows nothing'. Everytime I hear stories of great movies that almost never get made, it may sound like a success story- but it makes me think of the stories we never hear about. It makes me think that that there are many other great scripts that never get made- perhaps because of budget, genre, or because no one has taken the time to read or understand them. The best advise I've heard lately- Pick a great concept. And when you write it-- nail it.