Neon CEO Tom Quinn in The Ankler today:

You really have to have a relentless passion for film. It makes all the hard stuff that comes with the job — with the industry, failure, whatever it may be — it makes all of that very tolerable. Sometimes passion is a very lonely singular place.

I say this to the Neon team all the time, sometimes experience is overvalued in this industry. The reality is sometimes that experience is a liability and can hold people back from understanding that every single marketplace is different. It is not the same as it was 30 years ago.

Therefore, regardless of who you are in this industry, starting out or having spent 30 years like me, it’s important to remind yourself that you may not know everything. Someone sitting across from me who just showed up might know as much, and that’s the beautiful subjectivity of what we try to do in this business around something that is an artistic pursuit.