'Atlas Shrugged' producer: 'Critics, you won.' He's going 'on strike.' | 24 Frames | Los Angeles Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/04/atlas-shrugged-producer-critic...
...."Aglialoro said he believes he'll recoup his investment after TV, DVD and other ancillary rights are sold. But he is backing off an earlier strategy to expand "Atlas" to 1,000 screens and reconsidering his plans to start production on a second film this fall. "Why should I put up all of that money if the critics are coming in like lemmings ?" Aglialoro said. "I’ll make my money back and I'll make a profit, but do I wanna go and do two ? Maybe I just wanna see my grandkids and go on strike." ....
....."He saw an evening when he sat slumped across his desk in that office.It was late & his staff had left;so he could lie there alone,unwitnessed.He was tired.It was as if he had run a race against his own body,and all the exhaustion of years,which he had refused to acknowledge,had caught him at once & flattened him against the desk top.He felt nothing,except the desire not to move.He did not have the strength to feel--not even to suffer.He had burned everything there was to burn within him;he had scattered so many sparks to start so many things--and he wondered whether someone could give him now the spark he needed,now when he felt unable ever to rise again.He asked himself who had started him & kept him going.Then he raised his head.Slowly,with the greatest effort of his life,he made his body rise until he was able to sit upright with only one hand pressed to the desk and a trembling arm to support him.He never asked that question again."....
Atlas Shrugged pg 36. Paper Back edition
...."Aglialoro said he believes he'll recoup his investment after TV, DVD and other ancillary rights are sold. But he is backing off an earlier strategy to expand "Atlas" to 1,000 screens and reconsidering his plans to start production on a second film this fall. "Why should I put up all of that money if the critics are coming in like lemmings ?" Aglialoro said. "I’ll make my money back and I'll make a profit, but do I wanna go and do two ? Maybe I just wanna see my grandkids and go on strike." ....
....."He saw an evening when he sat slumped across his desk in that office.It was late & his staff had left;so he could lie there alone,unwitnessed.He was tired.It was as if he had run a race against his own body,and all the exhaustion of years,which he had refused to acknowledge,had caught him at once & flattened him against the desk top.He felt nothing,except the desire not to move.He did not have the strength to feel--not even to suffer.He had burned everything there was to burn within him;he had scattered so many sparks to start so many things--and he wondered whether someone could give him now the spark he needed,now when he felt unable ever to rise again.He asked himself who had started him & kept him going.Then he raised his head.Slowly,with the greatest effort of his life,he made his body rise until he was able to sit upright with only one hand pressed to the desk and a trembling arm to support him.He never asked that question again."....
Atlas Shrugged pg 36. Paper Back edition
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