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" Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now. "

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" How can you judge one film against another? "

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" Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar. "

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