You've got to get great people and great scripts and you have to see it through.

I think you're going to write a lot of great scripts sitting right beside this gorgeous pool!

Unsurprisingly, nobody asked him why, with all the great scripts that must come through his door, he continues to appear in these tedious, overblown epics.

The main requirement was great scripts, so the small Amazon Studios team read more than 3,000 scripts from May 2012 to early 2013.