Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.
The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.
If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.
Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.
The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.