The best quote I have run across in many of moons concerning the strike and the movie biz in general. Take heed, Moviemakers!

Harwood is drily optimistic that agreement will be reached ("I think the Writers Guild are having their balls squeezed") but far more certain that any settlement will make no difference to writers' income. "I've had a piece of every picture I've ever written. I've never had a penny. David Lean said to me at a party just after The Dresser, 'Do you want to make money out of movies?' I said, 'I'd love to.' He said, 'Go into the film studio; go and find the office where they're counting the money; you'll see men in suits on their knees stuffing money into sacks. The money they can't get in, grab, because that's all you're going to get.' "It's the game. There is nothing you can do about it."

                                       via Ray Pride's Movie City Indie

- Also for an acid-blown look inside the vicious, class-driven world of Hollywood you can do no better than to read Josh Friedman's take on it. Oh yea, it 's in his own words.