He wants to find the secret rational formula that will connect movie costs to movie revenues.
There is a secret formula that connects movie costs to revenues, and he wants to find it.
Window-shop your way past the goldsmiths and furriers of the Rue de la Paix to the Opera Garnier, a massive neo-Baroque building designed by Charles Garnier, a then-unknown architect who wanted to create a new Napoleon III style of architecture.