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Al Daff (1975)

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Australian-born Hollywood studio executive Al Daff says film producers need to find scripts that will succeed with an audience in two years time. He discusses the popularity of disaster movies at that time (the Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno era) and advises, 'Start a [genre] cycle, don’t end it, you end it, you’ll go broke’.