If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you've got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Making low quality comics is cheap but wasting large budgets on entertainment is wrong.
- In plain terms
- Cheap bad work is fine but wasting huge money on fun is not.
- What can you take from it?
- Question huge budgets spent on trivial entertainment.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where should money go first?
- What makes spending wrong?
Another view
Cost does not always equal value or quality in creative industries.
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