The Importance of Barriers to New Writers

"If you could figure out how to make the barriers to the new writers much higher, that would probably be the single best way to increase the salaries of writers," he says. "I don't want to have any kind of gatekeeping as to who gets to walk into a room and sell something or get hired by a studio." The idea is that when you hire a writer, it has to be a meaningful hire because next year they might not get hired on a show.