There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".
George HamiltonAt MGM there was a script cage in the basement where theyโd show rushes. And I thought to myself, โHow do I get into the script cage and find out what my future is?โ I climbed into the script cage one night and spent the whole night in there. I saw the bowels of MGM. I saw the studio scripts that the producers had seen; the writers had just handed them in. And I started thinking this is a chance to pick my own roles.
George Hamilton