Lizz Winstead

Co-Creator of The Daily Show, Lizz Winstead.
She’s a New Yorker…
by way of Minnesota.
Amazing the difference between those who are not afraid in the biz.
Those who are afraid: reserved, don’t want to say the wrong thing, save they will piss someone off.
Those unafraid: the truth.
Often with venom.

Lizz Winstead:

Development people and Executives are the least daring people I’ve ever met. Because the second they make a decision to buy your idea, their job is on the line. They will try, it seems, at any level to say ‘no’ or to find a flaw in your idea so that they can live another day in their offices.

So perfectly true, perfectly terse.
Really does bring up the whole issue of how the entire industry runs on fear.
If you risk in creativity, creating something that has the potential to be unique, then you are essentially risking your job. Brings up an old issue of mine and all my time spent at MTV and VH1…
My theory (and at this point I can recount a sundry of examples, but it certainly is not fact… at least not yet): a person in power will never hire anyone smarter than they are, because if they do so, the territory they’ve carved out for themselves will without question diminish.
It’s what I’ve taken to calling the “descending, backwards hiring slope.”