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People selling content internationally need to be highly focused on selling the right product to the right buyer. If things don't succeed on a particular network, they're not going to stay on very long.


Jon Feltheimer

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JON STEWART I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really hav...
JON FAVREAU Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is be...
JON LANDAU The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and n...
JON PORTER I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle ...
JON MEACHAM Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle betwe...
JON STEWART I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instrumen...
JON TESTER Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority i...
JON ORINGER I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'S...
JON FAVREAU One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wante...
JON MEACHAM What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the mos...
JON FAVREAU War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and...
JON ANDERSON Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on s...
JON BATISTE You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and...
JON FAVREAU People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that y...
JON BELLION I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marria...
JON ANDERSON Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own ...
JON LANDAU People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and th...
JON FAVREAU God’s will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your ...
JON MORRISON If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?
JON MCGREGOR At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a wo...
JON KRAKAUER It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to...
JON KRAKAUER The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change ev...
JON KRAKAUER According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a su...
JON KRAKAUER It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in whi...
JON KRAKAUER Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic...
JON KRAKAUER On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages ...
JON KRAKAUER I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty ...
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