For whatever reason I got sucked into watching "Project Greenlight" on Sunday afternoon. I have a friend who's a theatre producer who is an avid fan. It's definitely eye-opening to see what it takes to write, produce and direct a movie in Hollywood.

It just confirms my idea that at the end of day, all creative arts is a business enterprise especially if you want to have a ton of people see it. If you're only making art for you and your friends, then you only have to take their needs into consideration. But if you want the masses to see it, then it takes cash and a heck of a lot of collaboration. And the logistics of making a movie are mind-boggling, especially if you want to do special effects. No wonder movie tickets are so expensive ... it takes so many people, and specialist people too, to put a movie together. I think if you want to see how much a move costs to make, then count how many people the movie has to pay when they run the credits at the end. All those people in the credits need to be be paid by the profits from a movie.