History Quotes / ArtistDisillusionment

->im done. ''VideoGame/{{FEZ}} II'' is canceled. goodbyte.

->You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. [[ViewersAreMorons You people are stupid]].

-->-- '''[[ChappellesShow Dave Chappelle]]''' to a heckling audience

->Oh, and [=DDoS=] people; congratulations. You managed to delay this chapter by a total of six hours. *slow clap*
-->--Author's Note of chapter 76 of ''FanFic/MyFamilyAndOtherEquestrians'', referring to the [=DDoS=] attack that hit Website/FimfictionDotNet the day before and caused the chapter to be delayed several hours

->It just feels like after his debacle involving Mia Farrow and his underage stepdaughter, [[Creator/WoodyAllen (Woody) Allen]] is perfectly fine by running on cruise control. Whereas before he was always venturing into new territory and breaking new ground, now he says 'fuck it' and is content playing it safe with his drawer ideas. [[BulletsOverBroadway What if a mobster became a playwright?]] Fuck it, I can stretch that out to 90 minutes and ride things out another year. A Greek tragedy set to [[WriteWhoYouKnow banal upper class New Yorkers' petty issues]]? Fuck it, I don’t feel like doing anything meaningful.

->One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opportunity for the independent exercise of their talents, but have to hire themselves out to rich corporations directed by Philistines, who insist upon their producing what [[LowestCommonDenominator they themselves regard as pernicious nonsense]]...Such work cannot bring any real satisfaction, and in the course of reconciling himself to the doing of it, a man has to make himself so cynical that he can no longer derive whole-hearted satisfaction from anything whatever...Without self-respect genuine happiness is scarcely possible. And the man who is ashamed of his work can hardly achieve self-respect.

->[[GeneRoddenberry Gene]] was terrified that the studio would try and take the show away from him, so we ended up with this bizarre circumstance that Gene was so afraid of losing his show that he gave control away [[PointyHairedBoss to his lawyer]] and he didn’t trust me or Dorothy Fontana after. That was the part that hurt Dorothy and I the most, is that Gene stopped trusting us and started treating us as the enemy....And we go through rewrite after rewrite after rewrite and the script doesn’t get any better and I see what is going on and I don’t want to be trapped in an office where we have hypocrites running the place. I can’t deal with this, [[CreatorBreakdown my health was already starting to suffer]]. So I started taking vitamins and nothing is getting better and I said 'I can’t deal with this hypocrisy'... I get offered a really nice deal over at Columbia. So I tell Gene I want take the deal at Columbia and to please not renew my contract. He and I part pretending to be amicable and a week later my agent calls me and says 'why are people saying [[InTheBack you got fired]] from ''Star Trek?''[='=]

->''AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #406'' was J.M. [=DeMatteis=]'s last issue as writer. I think he grew increasingly weary of [[CrisisCrossover the weekly cross-title continuity]], and never getting the chance to tell his own stories -- stories in which he alone could do the beginning, the middle and the end. This couldn't have been an easy decision for J.M. to make, because I know how much he liked Ben Reilly and how excited he was about the clone saga from the very start. But I think he just reached the breaking point, and I can't say I really blame him. I know Marc was really looking forward to the moment when Ben would finally [[LegacyCharacter don the Spider-Man suit]], and getting the chance to write about the "new" web-slinger, but that pivotal moment just kept [[StatusQuoIsGod getting pushed further and further back]], amidst more and more gimmicky crossovers and an overall series direction that was spiraling out of control. So, unfortunately, he left.
-->--Editor/Writer '''Glenn Greenberg''' on ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''

->'''Wrestling/JimCornette:''' I've loved this shit all my life. They've taken the art out of it, they've taken all the fuckin' fun out of it, and they've taken the money out of it.\\
'''Alice:''' The only thing that people can be happy about anymore, I guess, is these tiny indie promotions that dot the land that are trying to maintain the old-school vibe, weekend warriors--\\
'''Corny:''' Yeah, and here's the problem!: None of them were around for the old-school, so they don't know what the "old-school" vibe was! ''They'' don't know how to do this shit!\\
'''Alice:''' Well, it's an artist's rendering, then. (chuckles)\\
'''Corny:''' It's an artist's rendering of '''A BUNCH OF FUCKING SHIT!'''
-->--''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8fEFDl7y4Q#t=630s Corny's Drive-Thru]]''



->‘I can’t believe [[ActorExistenceFailure he’s dead]]. He was the most alive person I’ve ever met…’ I found the Creator/JonPertwee interview in ''[DoctorWhoMagazine]'' extremely interesting, especially with regards to his approach to the role in season eleven. By all accounts he was grieving for the loss of Creator/KatyManning and Roger Delgado, he was working with the knowledge that the role that had made him a household name was soon to come to an end and he was [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore no longer surrounded by comforts]] such as UNIT and the Brigadier on a regular basis. To throw in [[Creator/ElisabethSladen a new assistant]] must have been tricky especially after his relationship with Katy Manning was so spectacular. And yet somehow (and this is something that he acknowledges with some pride) there is a palpable chemistry between him and [[Creator/ElisabethSladen Sarah Jane]]...Away from Sarah is where the problems lie, as Pertwee seems to breeze through one scene to the next without a care in the world. Is this really the same Doctor who screamed out in frustration when the world was burning in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno}} Inferno]]?

->[Gene] Hackman has never specifically pointed at ''Welcome to Mooseport'' as the movie that made him retire, but come on. He flat out stopped after this one... The fact that this revelation presumably hit him while working on a completely run-of-the-mill comedy with [[EverybodyLovesRaymond Ray Romano]] is the funniest thing about the movie. Picture grumpy old Gene Hackman sitting silently on a set while someone adjusts a picture of his face [[FanDisservice over the crotch of a nude man]] (that is an actual scene from the movie). Ray Romano comes over, awkwardly displaying his teeth as in every single photo of him that exists, and says in his depressed [[Series/TheMuppetShow Kermit voice]]: 'Are you ready for the scene, Gene?' Hackman slowly turns his head. '[[ThousandYardStare No, Ray. I don't think I am]].' He walks off of the set, starts running, and never stops. They have to finish the movie with CGI. (That's how it went in my imagination, anyway.)

'''Corny:''' Yeah, and here's the problem!: None of them were around for the old-school, so they don't know what the "old-school" was! ''They'' don't know how to do this shit!\\

-->--''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8fEFDl7y4Q#t=530s Corny's Drive-Thru]]''

->I just gave up, because [[TheyJustDidntCare they didn't care]], and they didn't know what they were doing.
-->--{{Wrestling/WCW}} announcer Bobby Heenan

-->''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8fEFDl7y4Q#t=530s Corny's Drive-Thru]]''

->(chain-smoking) Those who identify as "{{otaku}}", they sicken me deeply! Anime was a mistake, it’s nothing but trash!
-->--Troll quote misattributed to'''Creator/HayaoMiyazaki'''

->(chain-smoking) Those who identify as "{{otaku}}", they sicken me deeply. Anime was a mistake, it’s nothing but trash.
-->--'''Creator/HayaoMiyazaki'''

-->--'''Creaotor/BertrandRussell'''

->The experience was so bad for Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin that they’ve referred to it as 'horrible,' and Hewlett turned down what Wikipedia calls a 'big money’ offer from Dreamworks for the film rights to ''{{Gorillaz}}'' rather than lose creative control. But yeah, 'mess' is kind of the word for it.

->''"One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opportunity for the independent exercise of their talents, but have to hire themselves out to rich corporations directed by Philistines, who insist upon their producing what [[LowestCommonDenominator they themselves regard as pernicious nonsense]]...Such work cannot bring any real satisfaction, and in the course of reconciling himself to the doing of it, a man has to make himself so cynical that he can no longer derive whole-hearted satisfaction from anything whatever...Without self-respect genuine happiness is scarcely possible. And the man who is ashamed of his work can hardly achieve self-respect.”''
-->--'''Bertrand Russell'''

->''"[[GeneRoddenberry Gene]] was terrified that the studio would try and take the show away from him, so we ended up with this bizarre circumstance that Gene was so afraid of losing his show that he gave control away [[PointyHairedBoss to his lawyer]] and he didn’t trust me or Dorothy Fontana after. That was the part that hurt Dorothy and I the most, is that Gene stopped trusting us and started treating us as the enemy....And we go through rewrite after rewrite after rewrite and the script doesn’t get any better and I see what is going on and I don’t want to be trapped in an office where we have hypocrites running the place. I can’t deal with this, [[CreatorBreakdown my health was already starting to suffer]]. So I started taking vitamins and nothing is getting better and I said 'I can’t deal with this hypocrisy'... I get offered a really nice deal over at Columbia. So I tell Gene I want take the deal at Columbia and to please not renew my contract. He and I part pretending to be amicable and a week later my agent calls me and says 'why are people saying [[InTheBack you got fired]] from ''Star Trek?''[='=]"''

->''"You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. [[ViewersAreMorons You people are stupid]]."''

-> ''"After reading a few thousand emails like the [[FanDumb ones above]], I seriously contemplated taking down my site and just posting links to animal porn for you retards. You're all idiots, and I've lost what little respect I had for you."''
-->-- '''{{Maddox}}'''

->''"''AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #406'' was J.M. [=DeMatteis=]'s last issue as writer. I think he grew increasingly weary of [[CrisisCrossover the weekly cross-title continuity]], and never getting the chance to tell his own stories -- stories in which he alone could do the beginning, the middle and the end. This couldn't have been an easy decision for J.M. to make, because I know how much he liked Ben Reilly and how excited he was about the clone saga from the very start. But I think he just reached the breaking point, and I can't say I really blame him. I know Marc was really looking forward to the moment when Ben would finally [[LegacyCharacter don the Spider-Man suit]], and getting the chance to write about the "new" web-slinger, but that pivotal moment just kept [[StatusQuoIsGod getting pushed further and further back]], amidst more and more gimmicky crossovers and an overall series direction that was spiraling out of control. So, unfortunately, he left."''

->''"‘I can’t believe [[ActorExistenceFailure he’s dead]]. He was the most alive person I’ve ever met…’ I found the Creator/JonPertwee interview in ''[DoctorWhoMagazine]'' extremely interesting, especially with regards to his approach to the role in season eleven. By all accounts he was grieving for the loss of Creator/KatyManning and Roger Delgado, he was working with the knowledge that the role that had made him a household name was soon to come to an end and he was [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore no longer surrounded by comforts]] such as UNIT and the Brigadier on a regular basis. To throw in [[Creator/ElisabethSladen a new assistant]] must have been tricky especially after his relationship with Katy Manning was so spectacular. And yet somehow (and this is something that he acknowledges with some pride) there is a palpable chemistry between him and [[Creator/ElisabethSladen Sarah Jane]]...Away from Sarah is where the problems lie, as Pertwee seems to breeze through one scene to the next without a care in the world. Is this really the same Doctor who screamed out in frustration when the world was burning in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno}} Inferno]]?"''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2011/09/season-eleven.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS11E4TheMonsterOfPeladon}} "The Monster of Peladon"]]

->'''"The experience was so bad for Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin that they’ve referred to it as 'horrible,' and Hewlett turned down what Wikipedia calls a 'big money’ offer from Dreamworks for the film rights to ''{{Gorillaz}}'' rather than lose creative control. But yeah, 'mess' is kind of the word for it."''

->''"It just feels like after his debacle involving Mia Farrow and his underage stepdaughter, [[Creator/WoodyAllen (Woody) Allen]] is perfectly fine by running on cruise control. Whereas before he was always venturing into new territory and breaking new ground, now he says 'fuck it' and is content playing it safe with his drawer ideas. [[BulletsOverBroadway What if a mobster became a playwright?]] Fuck it, I can stretch that out to 90 minutes and ride things out another year. A Greek tragedy set to [[WriteWhoYouKnow banal upper class New Yorkers' petty issues]]? Fuck it, I don’t feel like doing anything meaningful."''

->''"''[Gene]'' Hackman has never specifically pointed at ''Welcome to Mooseport'' as the movie that made him retire, but come on. He flat out stopped after this one... The fact that this revelation presumably hit him while working on a completely run-of-the-mill comedy with [[EverybodyLovesRaymond Ray Romano]] is the funniest thing about the movie. Picture grumpy old Gene Hackman sitting silently on a set while someone adjusts a picture of his face [[FanDisservice over the crotch of a nude man]] (that is an actual scene from the movie). Ray Romano comes over, awkwardly displaying his teeth as in every single photo of him that exists, and says in his depressed [[Series/TheMuppetShow Kermit voice]]: 'Are you ready for the scene, Gene?' Hackman slowly turns his head. '[[ThousandYardStare No, Ray. I don't think I am]].' He walks off of the set, starts running, and never stops. They have to finish the movie with CGI. (That's how it went in my imagination, anyway.)"''

->''"We were ''supposed'' to feel fooled and betrayed by [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]]. This should be obvious from playing the game and studying its constant themes of layered deception, but history has proven that [[PoesLaw most people never got the joke]] or appreciated his sly attempt at making (what matches his own definition of) art. {{Postmodernism}} has that effect... If so, then perhaps the universal backlash he received was enough to convince him that games could not be art after all, hence his answer in ''[an]'' interview."''

->''"''[Gene]'' Hackman has never specifically pointed at ''Welcome to Mooseport'' as the movie that made him retire, but come on. He flat out stopped after this one... The fact that this revelation presumably hit him while working on a completely run-of-the-mill comedy with [[EverybodyLovesRaymond Ray Romano]] is the funniest thing about the movie. Picture grumpy old Gene Hackman sitting silently on a set while someone adjusts a picture of his face [[FanDisservice over the crotch of a nude man]] (that is an actual scene from the movie). Ray Romano comes over, awkwardly displaying his teeth as in every single photo of him that exists, and says in his depressed [[Series/TheMupperShow Kermit voice]]: 'Are you ready for the scene, Gene?' Hackman slowly turns his head. '[[ThousandYardStare No, Ray. I don't think I am]].' He walks off of the set, starts running, and never stops. They have to finish the movie with CGI. (That's how it went in my imagination, anyway.)"''

-->--'''Editor/Writer Glenn Greenberg''' on ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''

->''"''[Gene]'' Hackman has never specifically pointed at ''Welcome to Mooseport'' as the movie that made him retire, but come on. He flat out stopped after this one... The fact that this revelation presumably hit him while working on a completely run-of-the-mill comedy with [[EverybodyLovesRaymond Ray Romano]] is the funniest thing about the movie. Picture grumpy old Gene Hackman sitting silently on a set while someone adjusts a picture of his face [[FanDisservice over the crotch of a nude man]] (that is an actual scene from the movie). Ray Romano comes over, awkwardly displaying his teeth as in every single photo of him that exists, and says in his depressed Kermit voice: 'Are you ready for the scene, Gene?' Hackman slowly turns his head. "[[ThousandYardStare No, Ray. I don't think I am]]." He walks off of the set, starts running, and never stops. They have to finish the movie with CGI. (That's how it went in my imagination, anyway.)"''

->''"It just feels like after his debacle involving Mia Farrow and his underage stepdaughter, [[Creator/WoodyAllen (Woody) Allen]] is perfectly fine by running on cruise control. Whereas before he was always venturing into new territory and breaking new ground, now he says 'fuck it' and is content playing it safe with his drawer ideas. [[BulletsOverBroadway What if a mobster became a playwright?]] Fuck it, I can stretch that out to 90 minutes and ride things out another year. A Greek tragedy set to [[WriteWhoYouKnow banal upper class New Yorkers petty issues]]? Fuck it, I don’t feel like doing anything meaningful."''
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/mighty-aphrodite-woody-allen-1995/ on]] ''MightyAphrodite'' (1995)

->''"[[GeneRoddenberry Gene]] was terrified that the studio would try and take the show away from him, so we ended up with this bizarre circumstance that Gene was so afraid of losing his show that he gave control away [[PointyHairedBoss to his lawyer]] and he didn’t trust me or Dorothy Fontana after. That was the part that hurt Dorothy and I the most, is that Gene stopped trusting us and started treating us as the enemy....And we go through rewrite after rewrite after rewrite and the script doesn’t get any better and I see what is going on and I don’t want to be trapped in an office where we have hypocrites running the place. I can’t deal with this, [[CreatorBreakdown my health was already starting to suffer]]. So I started taking vitamins and nothing is getting better and I said 'I can’t deal with this hypocrisy'... I get offered a really nice deal over at Columbia. So I tell Gene I want take the deal at Columbia and to please not renew my contract. He and I part pretending to be amicable and a week later my agent calls me and says 'why are people saying [[BlatantLies you got fired]] from ''Star Trek?''[='=]"''

->''"[[GeneRoddenberry Gene]] was terrified that the studio would try and take the show away from him, so we ended up with this bizarre circumstance that Gene was so afraid of losing his show that he gave control away [[EnsignNewbie to his lawyer]] and he didn’t trust me or Dorothy Fontana after. That was the part that hurt Dorothy and I the most, is that Gene stopped trusting us and started treating us as the enemy....And we go through rewrite after rewrite after rewrite and the script doesn’t get any better and I see what is going on and I don’t want to be trapped in an office where we have hypocrites running the place. I can’t deal with this, [[CreatorBreakdown my health was already starting to suffer]]. So I started taking vitamins and nothing is getting better and I said 'I can’t deal with this hypocrisy'... I get offered a really nice deal over at Columbia. So I tell Gene I want take the deal at Columbia and to please not renew my contract. He and I part pretending to be amicable and a week later my agent calls me and says 'why are people saying [[BlatantLies you got fired]] from ''Star Trek?''[='=]"''

->''"[[GeneRoddenberry Gene]] was terrified that the studio would try and take the show away from him, so we ended up with this bizarre circumstance that Gene was so afraid of losing his show that he gave control away [[EnsignNewbie to his lawyer]] and he didn’t trust me or Dorothy Fontana after. That was the part that hurt Dorothy and I the most, is that Gene stopped trusting us and started treating us as the enemy....And we go through rewrite after rewrite after rewrite and the script doesn’t get any better and I see what is going on and I don’t want to be trapped in an office where we have hypocrites running the place. I can’t deal with this, my health was already starting to suffer. So I started taking vitamins and nothing is getting better and I said 'I can’t deal with this hypocrisy'... I get offered a really nice deal over at Columbia. So I tell Gene I want take the deal at Columbia and to please not renew my contract. He and I part pretending to be amicable and a week later my agent calls me and says 'why are people saying [[BlatantLies you got fired]] from ''Star Trek?''[='=]"''

->''"‘I can’t believe [[ActorExistenceFailure he’s dead]]. He was the most alive person I’ve ever met…’ I found the Creator/JonPertwee interview in ''[DoctorWhoMagazine]'' extremely interesting, especially with regards to his approach to the role in season eleven. By all accounts he was grieving for the loss of Creator/KatyManning and Roger Delgado, he was working with the knowledge that the role that had made him a household name was soon to come to an end and he was [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore no longer surrounded by comforts]] such as UNIT and the Brigadier on a regular basis. To throw in [[Creator/ElisabethSladen a new assistant]] must have been tricky especially after his relationship with Katy Manning was so spectacular. And yet somehow (and this is something that he acknowledges with some pride) there is a palpable chemistry between him and Sarah Jane...Away from Sarah is where the problems lie, as Pertwee seems to breeze through one scene to the next without a care in the world. Is this really the same Doctor who screamed out in frustration when the world was burning in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno}} Inferno]]?"''

->''"‘I can’t believe [[ActorExistenceFailure he’s dead]]. He was the most alive person I’ve ever met…’ I found the Creator/JonPertwee interview in ''[DoctorWhoMagazine]'' extremely interesting, especially with regards to his approach to the role in season eleven. By all accounts he was grieving for the loss of Katy Manning and Roger Delgado, he was working with the knowledge that the role that had made him a household name was soon to come to an end and he was [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore no longer surrounded by comforts]] such as UNIT and the Brigadier on a regular basis. To throw in [[Creator/ElisabethSladen a new assistant]] must have been tricky especially after his relationship with Creator/KatyManning was so spectacular. And yet somehow (and this is something that he acknowledges with some pride) there is a palpable chemistry between him and Sarah Jane...Away from Sarah is where the problems lie, as Pertwee seems to breeze through one scene to the next without a care in the world. Is this really the same Doctor who screamed out in frustration when the world was burning in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno}} Inferno]]?"''

->''"What we established in [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series]] was that there was a lot of tension between Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=]. It is normal and appropriate. Yes, there should be tension between these people who have different jobs. But you get Leonard Maizlish wandering the halls telling writers 'you can’t do this' and everybody is terrified because you could argue with Leonard and explain to him and the next thing you know you get a memo from Gene [[ProfessionalButtKisser that was dictated by Leonard]]...And we go through rewrite after rewrite after rewrite and the script doesn’t get any better and I see what is going on and I don’t want to be trapped in an office where we have hypocrites running the place. I can’t deal with this, my health was already starting to suffer. So I started taking vitamins and nothing is getting better and I said 'I can’t deal with this hypocrisy'... I get offered a really nice deal over at Columbia. So I tell Gene I want take the deal at Columbia and to please not renew my contract. He and I part pretending to be amicable and a week later my agent calls me and says 'why are people saying [[BlatantLies you got fired]] from ''Star Trek?''[='=]"''

->''"‘I can’t believe [[ActorExistenceFailure he’s dead]]. He was the most alive person I’ve ever met…’ I found the Creator/JonPertwee interview in ''[DoctorWhoMagazine]'' extremely interesting, especially with regards to his approach to the role in season eleven. By all accounts he was grieving for the loss of Katy Manning and Roger Delgado, he was working with the knowledge that the role that had made him a household name was soon to come to an end and he was [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore no longer surrounded by comforts]] such as UNIT and the Brigadier on a regular basis. To throw in [[Creator/ElisabethSladen a new assistant]] must have been tricky especially after his relationship with Creator/KatyManning was so spectacular. And yet somehow (and this is something that he acknowledges with some pride) there is a palpable chemistry between him and Sarah Jane that is vastly different from that of the third Doctor and Jo...Away from Sarah is where the problems lie, as Pertwee seems to breeze through one scene to the next without a care in the world. Is this really the same Doctor who screamed out in frustration when the world was burning in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno}} Inferno]]?"''