On creativity versus big businesses, as quoted in in "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business" by Susan Karlin, at Fast Company (2012) http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679856/alan-moore-on-watchmen-s-toxic-cloud-and-creativity-v-big-businesses <br class="br">Context: There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates. As a result, there's a growing number of professional writers now going to small presses, self-publishing, or trying other kinds of [distribution] strategies. The same is true of music and cinema. It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you've got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.
“An infant industry, if coddled, tends to remain an infant industry and never grows up or expands.”
John James Cowperthwaite (1915–2006) British colonial administrator
March 30, 1962, page 131.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Madeleine Stowe (1958) American actress
On violence in movies inspiring real-life violence, as quoted in Jam Showbiz (6 June 1999) http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/S/Stowe_Madeleine/1999/06/06/762059.html <br class="br">Context: I am really astonished at the number of violent acts.<br>I'm not saying that the movies created these situations, because there are a whole bunch of things.<br>But a lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become de-sensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often.<br>Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets.
Theodore Levitt (1925–2006) American economist and professor at Harvard Business School
Source: Marketing Myopia, 1960, p. 1; Lead paragraph
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
Joe Clark (1939) 16th Prime Minister of Canada
Upon stepping down as PC leader, 2003 Leadership Convention, May 30, 2003
John Galt (novelist) (1779–1839) British writer
Carl MacDougall, "Reformers and radicals in Scottish literature" http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/arts/writingscotland/learning_journeys/reformers_and_radicals/. <br class="br">Criticism
“The publishing world tends to focus more on the “young”, less on the “adult.””
Juno Dawson (1981) British youth fiction author
But I spend lots of time with teenagers and they’re truly the broadband generation. They’ve been online all their lives and seen things that would make milk curdle: beheadings, graphic violence, hardcore porn. Shielding them is never going to work. What makes this book YA is that it tackles issues in a non-judgmental way. We know these things exist, so let’s talk about them…<br><br>On why her young adult novel Clean contains drugs, sex and swearing in “Juno Dawson: ‘Teenagers have seen things that would make milk curdle’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/01/juno-dawson-clean-interview-transgender-anorexia-drugs in The Guardian (2018 Apr 1)
