In the early 50s, along with Elia Kazan, who had directed All My Sons and Death of a Salesman, I submitted a script to Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures.
Mr. West had been a standup comedian and had appeared in Broadway shows before he and a partner, Mickey Ross, submitted a script to Norman Lear for his groundbreaking series "All in the Family" in 1971.
Morrissey, who submitted a script to Coronation Street before he found fame in The Smiths (it was rejected) was also once offered a cameo on Friends in the US.
Submitting a script to a committee that's looking to satisfy some established norm of artistic merit or so-called "quality" (a loaded term in the history of French cinema) is no less of a hurdle, or even a constraint, than trying to persuade a producer of a project's commercial potential.
Cartier became involved in the film industry in 1929, when he successfully submitted a script to a company based in Berlin, Germany.
The tool for this, which Michels and Stutz teach to those who are hoping to win an award or who are about to submit a script for approval, involves imagining yourself falling backward into the sun, saying "I am willing to lose everything" as you are consumed in a giant fireball, after which, transformed into a sunbeam, you profess, "I am infinite".
You have to submit a script and are judged on merit.
If you answered E, you are hereby excused from this movie, and invited to submit a script outline for the next remake.
"I am invited to submit a script, and I whip off a word-slinger's delight wherein young take on old as a jukebox is tested in the Rovers' Return".
"Greenlight" is the HBO series that followed Mr. Jones's journey through making "Stolen Summer," his debut film, after he won a contest created by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, in which aspiring and unproduced filmmakers were asked to submit a script.
