“Everyone is trying to sell this thing you’ve created to the next person in line, that’s how the industry works. At its core, it’s a sales business. Not creative. Try to get that into your head. This is not a creative industry, you didn’t read Save The Cat from cover to cover because you wanted to be David Lynch
When I left school I worked in sales for a couple of years, and I learned one very valuable lesson; most sales people don’t relish a challenge. They would far rather you gave them something easy to sell, something that sells itself. “We’d be more comfortable selling this movie if you had Tom Cruise attached”. Sure, I get that. But if I had Tom Cruise, I could sell the fucking thing myself – how about you try earning your commission?”
https://developmenthell.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-hollywood