Faith & Spirit Quote by Bill Condon

Creative ambition collides here with the slow, bureaucratic physics of Hollywood, and Bill Condon lets the collision speak for itself. The line starts with the energy of personal attachment - "passionately involved", "wrote for... over a year" - then immediately runs into the industrys favorite verb: "could never get made". Not failed, not rejected. Just... never made. The passivity is the point. In studio filmmaking, projects dont always die; they linger in a kind of purgatory where everyone is "still pushing it" because saying its dead would mean admitting nobody is in control.

Condons anecdote about a Richard Pryor script is doing double duty. On the surface, its a lament about development hell. Underneath, its a subtle portrait of how time is weaponized in the business. Two-and-a-half years "close to getting made" is its own kind of cruelty: proximity becomes a mirage that keeps writers and directors emotionally invested, available, hopeful - and therefore manageable. The project remains a promise, which means the labor keeps accumulating off-screen.

Then comes the gut punch: "Suddenly you wake up..". Condon frames the experience like a hangover, the dazed realization that your life has been spent waiting for a greenlight. The casual "God" and the conversational "you know" arent throwaways; they signal someone trying to make peace with a system that turns years into a blur. Its not just about one unmade movie. Its about how an industry built on dreams quietly bills you in time.