Very true. There are so many tens of thousands of people that think they can write movies that writing a great script is only part of the equation in getting a deal. Getting the right person to read it--or really, getting anyone that matters to read it--is just as hard as writing that great script in many ways.

And then, after you make that one in a million deal off some crazy-good pitch to the right executive, there's no guarantee that it will ever get shot. There are many writers in hollywood that have sold dozens of scripts and only ever had one or two get produced.