The Lexicographer's Rules

"I'm a New Yorker. This is where I want to be. The less time you spend in LA, the more movies you're getting made. LA is very development driven; it's all about studios that develop hundreds of projects for a senior executive who can say 'yes' 13 or 20 times a year. The further away you get from that, the more likely you are to getting the movie made. And New York is as far as you can get before the ocean."

—IndieWire. Steven Haft and other panelists answer questions from movie industry hopefuls at the "Hollywood on the Hudson" panel of the New York Women in Film and Television organization, this question concerning whether the industry panelists preferred to work in Hollywood or New York. Amy Robinson: "New York is where I feel comfortable and creative. But it's also about luck. You have to look at yourself and decide. I think all of us, or some of us here, are slightly outside the system. If we really wanted to embrace it, we would have to go there [L.A.]. And it's very lucrative. It supports all of these mid-level executives. I don't say, 'Don't do it,' if that's what you want to do. But it's a much more iconoclastic system living and working here in New York."'

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