Predicting Success Quotes

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

It's very difficult to predict a team's competitiveness.

'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really predicting what's going to work and what's not.

I have a knack - and still do - where I can look at a guy and tell you if he's going to draw you money or not. That's very difficult to do. I haven't met too many people who can do that.

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's going to be a success.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.

I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.