On listening
I just finished reading a great interview with Morgan Spurlock. In there was a wonderful quote on the importance of listening to others when creating a product.
Some of the best advice I ever got was from a friend of mine right before we made “Super Size Me.” I called a filmmaker friend of mine; I’d never made a movie, never made a feature and I said, “Could you just give me some advice?” And he said, “If the movie you end up with at the end is the exact same movie you envisioned at the beginning, then you didn’t listen to anybody along the way.”
[I’d link to the interview but the site looks like a “made for Adsense site”. My guess is that they’ve copied the article in full from someone else—so I’m not giving them any link love.]
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