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“I remember Jane Amsterdam, who was a wonderful magazine editor. She ran Manhattan, Inc…She said to me, ‘How do you take it? How do you stand the fact that there’s such a hiatus between when you commission a book and when you see it. What do you do? How do you get off on that?’ I said, ‘You have to learn to start getting off on just the fact that you’ve acquired the book.’ The deal has to become exciting. There’s a a long hiatus between the time you convince somebody or they convince you to do a book and when the damn thing actually comes out.”—David Rosenthal, publisher, Simon & Schuster, in Stop Smiling, 2005.

“The producer and director collect Navajo belts and speak every day to Los Angeles, New York, London. They are setting up other deals, other action. By the time this picture is released and reviewed they will be on location in other cities. A picture in release is gone. A picture in release tends to fade from the minds of the people who made it…[T]he picture itself is in many ways only the action’s by-product.”—Joan Didion, The White Album, 1979

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