GEORGE LUCAS: I ended up in a funny situation, where I had written a screenplay, but the screenplay was so big that I couldn't possibly make it into a movie.
Goldwyn usually paid for his films himself. He bought the best stories and plays to be made into movies. He employed the best writers, directors and actors.
Like Artemis, a heist story on the moon written by Andy Weir the author of the Martian which I strongly recommend you listen to before it's inevitably made into a movie.