Production
According to Stacey Sher, one of the film's producers, when they were attempting to locate financing for the film they had the real Erin Brockovich pitch her life story to an unnamed movie studio executive who yawned in the middle of her pitch. One of the film's executive producers, Carla Shamberg, said, "I'm sorry. Are we keeping you awake?"
Erin Brockovich performed well with test audiences but executives at Universal Pictures were worried that audiences would be turned off by the title character's use of profane language.
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“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
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“To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.”
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