If you want to be a big success then it becomes a dick showing contest, and that’s not what it’s about. It can’t be about ‘My book sold more copies than your book.’ It can’t be about ‘More people went to see my movie than went to see your movie.’ If it is about that, then Danielle Steel must be an extraordinarily wonderful author because she sells so many copies. You can’t do calculations that way.What interests me is holding the vision: doing something that is yours and making sure that it can’t be like anyone else’s.

If you want to be a big success then it becomes a dick showing contest, and that’s not what it’s about. It can’t be about ‘My book sold more copies than your book.’ It can’t be about ‘More people went to see my movie than went to see your movie.’ If it is about that, then Danielle Steel must be an extraordinarily wonderful author because she sells so many copies. You can’t do calculations that way.What interests me is holding the vision: doing something that is yours and making sure that it can’t be like anyone else’s.

– Clive Barker –

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