jimmy smits makes it a sexy "stand and deliver." (peter bart) committees are not very satisfying entities to work off for a filmmaker. and they're not conducive to creative decisions. how about "mud slide kills 60 in slums of chile"? that's good. triumph over tragedy. sounds like a john boorman picture. you slap a happy ending on it, the script will write itself. i was just thinking what an interesting concept to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here. i know every studio chief in hollywood, personally. and if you have dinner with any of them the one thing they'll say is, "look, business is bad, we're making lousy pictures. product is mediocre." part of the reason, the key reason it's mediocre is because of the committee system. never existed in the studios until this moment in history. (music playing) (thomas schatz) i see paramount and disney, particularly, as trying to get back to something more systematic. something more efficient, more industrially