What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of.
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
I don't wanna go full mainstream and have my followers go 'What happened?'
Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.
In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.
It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.
I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.
We're not going to scramble to make Chinese movies that we don't believe in; we're not going to make co-productions that we don't believe in, and we're not going to try to jam product into China that doesn't make sense.
There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you.
