• Your element is a place you should remain far from when expecting creativity.
• Having YouTube subscribers does not make you a network programming executive. You’re probably overqualified.
• Never let someone review a rough cut who doesn’t understand what one is.
• You pay Ticketmaster for the convenience of . . . paying for a ticket. They’re completely unnecessary unless you live somewhere acres or cattle outnumber humans. (Hint: “box office”)
• Paying fifty bucks to see Scott Weiland fall off a stage is not a badge of honor. It’s gambling. If I show up drunk for work, I get fired.
• On Battlestar Galactica, “frak” can be loosely translated as “smurf.”
• Producer and engineer are not the same job. Just like waiter and chef. Don’t be fooled by any overlap, like making drinks or procuring smack.
• Compromise is never an improvement if between more than two directions.
• He who laughs last should not go out to movie theaters.
• When you’ve run out of ideas, you run into remakes.
…and when you haven’t the resources for a remake you convince yourself that “reality” is an idea.
And when you’ve run out of reality, you run into reruns.
And when you’ve run out of reruns hopefully you’ll pick up a book for a change.
Truth: JK Rowling cannot possibly be an environmentalist given her massive waste of timber.