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Now, in fairness, this storyline was an editorial mandate. In fact, most of these turns to evil were editorial mandates, further proving that editors aren't writers, so they should STOP PRETENDING THEY ARE. |
So Pinky and The Brain share a new domain. —The theme song to Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain
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Movie executives do not lead happy lives. If you are an executive, this is your day: a scruffy man in a Hawaiian shirt walks into your office and says, "I need you to be personally responsible for giving me one hundred million dollars so I can go to Ireland and have people who pretend for a living act like they're fighting imaginary dragons." |
"What you have to remember is that in the movies there are two types of people 1) the directors, artists, actors and so on who have to do things and are often quite human and 2) the other lifeforms. Unfortunately you have to deal with the other lifeforms first. It is impossible to exaggerate their baleful stupidity." |
Guano: But... but you said you'd never tamper with my creative vision. |
I'm sick to death of being fucked about by men in suits sitting on their fat arses in the City! —John Lennon, expressing his frustration over The Beatles not legally owning their own songs (long story...)
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There's something wrong with Gilligan's Island! —"Something's Wrong with Gilligan's Island", by Radio Free Vestibule
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"Nothing can ruin a good idea like a roomful of men." —Denise, Trust Me
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"Creative Reasons" has been an Executive Bullshit excuse for DECADES. It IS financial. AJ is a dreamboat. And yes, I am hurt, too. —Paget Brewster in a tweet after finding out that her and AJ Cook's parts were being eliminated.
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Crow: Okay, The Final Sacrifice: The Series- —Mystery Science Theater 3000, engaging in some frightfully-accurate roleplay during the credits of The Final Sacrifice
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One likes to believe in the freedom of music —The Spirit of Radio, Rush
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I made him a flushed, dishevelled, bedevilled scallawag, with his helmet at the back of his head, and the living fear of death in his eye, and the blood oozing out of a cut over his ankle-bone. He wasn't pretty, but he was all soldier and very much man. [...] —Dick, The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling.
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After I turned in my next-to-last draft [for The Core], the executives looked at me, very seriously, hand on knee, low subdued tones: "John, we really like this last draft, but one thing bugs us. The whole idea of the north and south pole switching places — it's WAY over the top and unbelievable. It just reeks of bullshit." |
This attitude continues to baffle me. Editors, if you want to tell your own stupid story, write your own script! It is not your job to write for the writer! If there's a problem with the script, talk to the writer and fix it with them! |
"It's called 'Show Business,' not 'Show Art." —Maggie O'Connell, Northern Exposure
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"I want to thank the studio for sticking to their convictions-- and firing me for sticking to mine." —J. D. Shapiro, on Battlefield Earth.
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All we ever want is indecision —The Stressed Reprise of "Stitching it Together (Art of the Dress)", [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] |
"Audiences are fiercely protective because they know that if four TV executives are stranded on an island with a crate of food and a can opener, three will starve to death and the fourth will choke on the can opener." —This Cracked article.
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Ed was all about showing off the ENTIRE Realms, so DMs would early on really feel what it was like to have steamy jungles AND howling glaciers, pirates in the tropics and grim northern warriors, etc etc ad infinitum. —The Hooded One, Lady Herald of Realmslore.
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I am the entertainer —Billy Joel, "The Entertainer"
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"There is no idea so good it can't be ruined by a few well-placed idiots." —Scott Adams
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"In a master stroke of UPN programming brilliance, Dilbert follows Shasta McNasty, a show geared toward viewers who are... how can I say this... very likely to die in bowling ball cleaning machine accidents. Fortunately, Shasta is a filthy and sophomoric show, so it will corner the market on perverts and unsupervised minors. It's a perfect lead-in audience for an animated Dilbert TV show. If you don't understand that, you will never be a television executive." —Scott Adams
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