Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad.
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
I've done shows that aired on American TV, but none of them proved to be successful, so yes, no one here knows who I am.
The number of businesses that fold due to bad partnerships is staggering. In some cases, they are charlatans, in others inept business people, and others find themselves unable to scale with any growth.
I had no release in 2013. I worked on four films; none of them saw the light of day.
I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.
It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.
Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.
Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.
I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.
I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.
It isn't that every company is going to be successful. The law of averages shows that 80% of companies are going to fail.
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.
I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.
I've made stupid investments. I've made stupid decisions as an employee. I've made foolish decisions as a manager. I've gotten fired. I've lost businesses. I went through all of those things.
I had four films one year that were supposed to happen and didn't.
I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.
I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.
My dad was a terrible businessman.
I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.
Things that I do tend not to work out commercially.
I was doing a couple of films which got shelved a week before the shooting was supposed to start.
