ricky gervais... gimmie control.
Q. You insist on complete creative control, right?
Yes, I’m a complete fascist—and you should be in art. I don’t think I’m the best producer or director or actor in the world, but I know how I want it done. I don’t try to please anyone except myself. If people like what I do, fantastic. If they don’t, that’s good, too. If you start trying to water it down or second-guess, you end up with something so safe and homogenized that a lot of people will like it, but they won’t love it. I’ve always preferred to do something that really moves a million people rather than something that washes over 10 million. The more successful you get, the more hated you are, but you should relish that, because it means you're making a connection. And that’s the point of art.
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Taken from a recent interview on the Harvard Business Review website. View the complete interview here:
http://hbr.org/2011/04/lifes-work-ricky-gervais/ar/1


