Who is your enemy?
Before anything happens, I'd like to say I've always distrusted both marketing experts and censors (I hate the latter with all my heart, actually). If I ever had to protect myself from somebody is from these people that think they have a hand in anything artistic...when God knows they don't. They maybe the pinnacle of man's search to control creativity, but they can also be the greatest undoing of culture.
I'm maybe talking about Mexican varieties, but even the big guys have the tendencies to destroy artistic vision...Microsoft, Sony even Nintendo. They put their marketing guys up front and we're talking a bloodbath.
That's why most dreamers go independent...others do not possess the vision to understand, let alone the gray matter to imagine for themselves the beauty in something.
Beauty comes first for an artist, consequences always come later (and that is a big issue for us). None of the great artists ever gave a damn fuck, how their opus magnus could affect society, and neither should modern ones.
To all my friends out there, be wary of investors and those who say they can help you with the money...nothing else is more important than the content. Thanks to St. George Lucas and St. Robert Rodriguez for the heads up on all these things to expect from the evil corporate empires.
