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3->''"''Marville'' does not have the stuff that makes for top-selling comics, but it does explore the origin and meaning of life, so I thought it was worth a six-issue series. And, because I'm president of Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}, I could ignore the bean counters and publish ''Marville'' without regard for minimum sales projections and margin requirements."''
4-->-- '''Bill Jemas''', ''ComicBook/{{Marville}} #6''
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8->''"We know what happens when the publisher shits the bed, but what about when the ''developer'' earns the displeasure of the hotel chambermaid? When they are given ''too much'' development time as opposed to too little as the publisher comforts themselves with the knowledge that even Creator/StanleyKubrick once took 170 takes to the same scene, willfully ignoring the fact that while Stanley Kubrick was a flighty auteur genius the same behavior pattern could easily be displayed by an incompetent spod with no planning skills and an indirectly proportional ego?"''
9-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''{{VideoGame/Daikatana}}''
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13->''"Given that his plot ideas for the sequel included gems like ''[='=][[WhoShotJFK Spock shoots JFK]][='=]'', perhaps shuffling [[Creator/GeneRoddenberry Roddenberry]] as far from influence as humanly possible was a shrewd decision, as the studio [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld pushed him into a generic (and neutered) 'consultant' role]]."''
14-->-- '''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2013/08/06/non-review-review-star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''
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16->''"I imagine this was largely because Creator/TimBurton ended every conversation with, 'F*** you, I'm Tim F***ing Burton and I can do whatever I want.'"''
17-->-- '''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' on ''Film/Batman1989''
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19->''"[[Creator/PaulVerhoeven Verhoeven]] was confident enough in ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''[='=] success that he deferred 70% of his $6 million dollar directing fees in exchange for complete creative control and the ability to release the movie with an NC-17 rating. Verhoeven would receive the rest of his fee if the movie was a hit... [[BoxOfficeBomb which it was not.]]"''
20-->-- '''[[https://lebeauleblog.com/2015/01/30/what-the-hell-happened-to-elizabeth-berkley/#more-21071 LeBeau]]''', "What the Hell Happened to Creator/ElizabethBerkley?"
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22->''"There's a huge clue in the book ''The Man who Heard Voices'', which is devoted to the production of ''Film/LadyInTheWater''. The book covers, in great detail, how blown away Night is by a Creator/{{Disney}} executive who unthinkably failed to 'get' his script, and the soul-searching, sweaty-sheeted introspection about just what was wrong with other people, that they couldn't see how incredible his story was."''
23-->-- '''[[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/the-self-destruction-of-m-night-shyamalan/ Stuart Millard]]''', "The Self-Destruction of Creator/MNightShyamalan"
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25->''"I would still like to see [[Creator/DavidLynch Jennifer Lynch]] direct a movie without that terrible screenwriter she always drags along also coincidentally named Jennifer Lynch."''
26-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/surveillance-2008-jennifer-chambers-lynch/ on]] ''Surveillance'' (2008)
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28->''"I remember being quite miffed after watching 90 minutes of generally badly judged television and wondering how Creator/RussellTDavies could have got it so wrong."''
29-->-- '''[[http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5386390949828958591&postID=6384766376348952377&isPopup=true Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', [[{{Recap/TorchwoodS1E1EverythingChanges}} "Everything Changes"]]
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31->''"All of the higher-ups who said the show was too weird, or that not enough people watched it, or that I was more obsessed with making obscure references than I was with telling stories and, occasionally, jokes -- that was ALL HORSESHIT. I never should have doubted myself. '''And I never will again'''."
32-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''' on Creator/SethMacFarlane, ''[[https://www.cracked.com/blog/4-artists-who-should-probably-just-take-break-while_p2/ 4 Artists Who Should Probably Just Take a Break for a While]]''
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34->''"The Internet. A wondrous place, filled with all sorts of information for you to unveil. A place without restrictions, a place without limits. Once the Internet became widespread and at the reach of the common citizen, it opened window of opportunities to all the creative minds (and not so creative ones) to express themselves in thousands of unthinkable ways. This was the birth of a whole new society, a culture, that could be shared by all mankind alike… One of the ways to express yourself is webcomics. Oh, the webcomics… Meeting no standards, having no restrictions and being far from thing like laws, rules and quality control has its toll. The BAD webcomics are the price to pay for such freedom. Daily, hundreds if not thousands of aspiring people try to reach the masses through works of fiction which follow none of the guidelines that make the respectable business of printed comics what it is. Bad webcomic creators are psychologically blind to their flaws, their egos are fed by the constant stream of ass-kissing supplied by their semi-literate fans who don't know any better. It is exactly these kinds of insults to art that we are here to document."''
35-->-- [[http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page The Bad Webcomics Wiki]]
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39->'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]:''' I guess Peter Molyneux's problem is that he didn't really belong in a world with no parameters.\
40'''Gabriel:''' Yes, the classic problem: If you have loads of energy and infinite dreams, you '''need''' parameters.\
41'''Yahtzee:''' Parameters promote creativity, and with the parameters he was given in 2-D, he could make stuff like... ''VideoGame/ThemePark'' and ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper''!\
42'''Gabriel:''' ''VideoGame/{{Populous}}''!\
43'''Yahtzee:''' But when he was given ''no'' parameters--or near as no parameters as you can get when gaming technology developed--he was making ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}''; and suddenly his role in gaming, which was to make the most of what we had, was obsolete.
44-->-- ''LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TydBiQaXm8g&t=26m45s on]] Creator/PeterMolyneux
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46->''"It sounds like the person in charge of this was ''no one'', which is why all the songs are a malformed mess."''
47-->-- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''' on ''[[Music/VanHalen Van Halen III]]''
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49->''"Listen, sir, I'm going to need you to get all the way off my back."''
50-->-- '''The Screenwriter'''[='=]s {{Catchphrase}} in response to feedback, ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings''
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52->''"Normally, by this time in the video, I would have introduced the [[PointyHairedBoss stuffy executive that didn't know the difference between a polygon and a pixel]] bursting into the office […] and [[ExecutiveMeddling ruining the game]], but that apparently didn't happen with ''[[VideoGame/JurassicParkTrespasser Trespasser]]''. […] This lack of management is unfortunately something that hurt the project, because sometimes you ''do'' need another experienced set of eyes to take an objective look at [[SkewedPriorities what's not worth slamming your head into over and over]]."''
53-->-- '''WebVideo/MattMcMuscles''', "[[https://youtu.be/bp7PqRMI1HA Trespasser: Jurassic Park - What Happened?]]"
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55->''"Why would ''you'' need to improve? Why would ''you'' need to get any better? Everyone just agrees with ''your'' shitty ideas because you're a ''Zelda''."''
56-->-- '''Creator/{{Egoraptor}}''' on ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', ''WebVideo/{{Sequelitis}}'', "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XOC3vixnj_0&pp=ygUKc2VxdWVsaXRpcw%3D%3D ZELDA: A Link to the Past vs. Ocarina of Time]]"
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60->''3) When I'm Famous, I Won't Have to Deal with Editors\
61This doesn't happen often. If you are lucky, it will never happen to you.''
62-->-- '''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20091016220725/http://crossedgenres.com/archives/001/common-misconceptions-about-editors-by-david-kudler/ "Common Misconceptions About Editors" by David Kudler]]'''
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64->''"No one edits. I edit. I refuse to be edited."''
65-->-- '''Harold Bloom'''
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67->''"There's a lot of rubbish on ''[[Music/TheirSatanicMajestiesRequest Satanic Majesties]]''. Just too much time on our hands, too many drugs, no producer to tell us, 'Enough already, thank you very much, now can we just get on with this song?' Anyone let loose in the studio will produce stuff like that. There was simply too much hanging around. It's like believing everything you do is great and not having any editing."''
68-->-- '''Music/MickJagger''' of Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}
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70->''"The great producer--how did this happen to him? He got so good at keeping the studio away, and getting his way with things, and taking the time he wanted to take, I don’t think he ever got a chance to examine what we were making."''
71-->-- '''Paul Sylbert''', production designer on ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'', on Creator/WarrenBeatty
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73->''"This is my ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', and I can destroy it if I want to."''
74-->-- '''Creator/HideoKojima''' on [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-final-hours-of-metal-gear-solid-2-sons-of-liberty/1100-6376810/ a grumpy day]]
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76->''"Totalitarian? Creator/TheBBC? Seriously? The other day I had to BEG a meeting with [[=BBC1=] controller] Jay Hunt, just so I could explain what we're spending all her money on in ''Series/DoctorWho''. She said it all sounded very nice and sent me off to play. That's more than creative freedom, that's being turned loose in the wild. Frankly, I'm scared and want someone to tell me what to do. I might even have an epiphany."''
77-->-- '''Creator/StevenMoffat''' [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/16/tv-writers-support-bbc-drama tells it like it is.]]
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79->''"It's my job to find potential in things that might not on the surface seem to have any, and it is their job to be skeptical and question all ideas to make sure they measure up."''
80-->-- '''[[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Mark Rosewater]]'''
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82->''"Before the public sees any syndicated cartoons, they're first screened by an editor or two for potential problems. And editors, I'm convinced, have saved my career many times by their decisions ''not'' to publish certain cartoons."''
83-->-- '''[[ComicStrip/TheFarSide Gary Larson]]'''
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85->''"Speaking as a freelancer, some of us have really boneheaded ideas that need to be challenged and changed."''
86-->-- '''Neall Raemonn Price'''
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88->''"I discovered that editing is really another word for someone ruthlessly tearing apart your work with a big smile, all the while telling you that it will make the book so much better. And it did, though it felt like splinters of hot bamboo being driven into my tender eyeballs."''
89-->-- '''Creator/ChristopherPaolini''', on the editing of ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]''
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91->''"Aw, and he was so ''underappreciated.'' He wasn't given the ''credit'' that he deserved, that he was ''responsible'' for. Nobody ''recognized'' him. You know what they're 'recognizing' now? What Vince Russo's shit looks like when he didn't have Wrestling/VinceMcMahon standing over him saying, 'You know, those twenty-four ideas are real bullshit, but I'll take ''this'' good one."''
92-->-- '''Wrestling/JimCornette''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMm0Alg0bvs on]] Wrestling/VinceRusso
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94->''"It's telling that when a filmmaker succeeds in running his own studio, it's because he's learned to let his inner businessman veto his inner artiste. [[Creator/FrancisFordCoppola Coppola]] ran Zoetrope with his heart. It nearly destroyed him. Creator/StevenSpielberg runs Creator/{{DreamWorks|SKG}} with his brain, a decision that leads to much healthier returns on investment."''
95-->-- '''Creator/NathanRabin''', [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/my-year-of-flops-case-file-95-one-from-the-heart,10133/ My Year of Flops #95:]] ''Film/OneFromTheHeart''
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97->''"Bob just thought the Antichrist was trying to destroy his art. They were well-meaning people who wanted him to get what he deserved, which was a big commercial hit. But when it came down to the art or the money, he was with the art."''
98-->-- '''Robert Dornhelm''', on Creator/RobertAltman's insistence on editing his own films
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100->''"When you are young and unsuccessful, you suffer for art's sake. When you are old and successful, art suffers for your sake."''
101-->-- '''[[http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?70434-Why-do-I-keep-doing-this Solatium]]'''
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103->''"Fame-dazzled editors often misplace their scissors at the very moment when authors most need their help."''
104-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Telegraph]]''', From a review of the first collection by the young poet Amanda Gorman.
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