William Kennedy
"There's a careless optimism in the [Hollywood] executives' minds when they spend this money. It's pin money to them, these options or development deals they make to get the script, they feel they can throw it away. If it gets done somewhere else then they'll get some of their money back."
— William Kennedy
"We were talking about Jack Nicholson, and that level of aspiration for the film [based on my novel]. What happened was a change in the hierarchy at Warner Brothers, and the people who had brought the project in no longer had power. That was the first time that happened. But it happened over and over. You don't know what to believe, and you never know for sure why you're getting turned down, or even why they were interested in you in the first place."
— William Kennedy
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"The usual negative attitude toward anything that you present to folks in Hollywood: They say 'no' all the time; very rarely do they say 'yes.' They're in the business of saying 'no;' they're in the business of not making movies."
— William Kennedy