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Advice From Austin: The 27 Best Things Screenwriters Said at the Austin Film Festival Writers Conference

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Lauri Donahue

The Movie Business

19. “The most powerful commodity in any negotiation is indifference.”—Stephen Clark (partner, Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler & Feldman)

20. “90 percent of working writers are unreadable. 10 percent are phenomenal and they get all the work.”—Henry Jones (MovieMaker Screenwriter to Watch)

21. “You will outlast every executive you tells you you suck. Because they’ll lose their jobs to some 22-year-old who grew up on your stuff and thinks you’re the shit.”—Keenen Ivory Wayans (In Living Color)

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