Samuel Witwer Quotes

If you're going to sign a contract, there are things you have to understand you might have to do. If you don't, then you walk away.

Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

You can't sign just any contract.

It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.

I went with Atlantic because I got a lawyer to look at my contract and my contract was fire.

Read your contracts. Up and down, left and right.

Get a good lawyer because sometimes it's hard to understand what you might or might not be agreeing to.

What usually comes first is the contract.

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.

I authorize no bargains and will be bound by none.

When a party shall make bond or conveyance, what he has named by word-of-mouth that shall hold good

Circumstances may require a dissolution of contracts founded on the most binding and sacred obligations…which dissolution ought not to be dependent on private will, but should require legislative interference; inasmuch as the republic is deeply interested in the private business of its citizens.

There was this one movie I really wanted to do, with Gregory Peck, 'Captain Newman, M.D.,' and Universal said, 'Well, if you want that, you're going to have to sign a seven-year contract.' And I'd already been through that. But I needed it, so I signed.

The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget.

I think marriage initially involves a lot of people who have nothing to do with your relationship, because it's a legally binding contract, and that has a weight to it.

As a freelancer, as a writer, and running my company, people have always tried to negotiate me down. Some might think that I might accept their offers because they think I don't have many options. The truth is, I always have options available to me.

I don't want to be like those guys that, two or three years into their contract, they do really good, and then they don't care.

Even if you have a contract you can be sold.