This section is for any producers, directors, or others within the entertainment hierarchy who may seek to take my works to a level beyond where they are now. I have already placed such courses of action under consideration, and thus felt it necessary to preemptively elaborate my terms. Allow me to preface this with a simple and important bit of knowledge:

I am very difficult to work with.

All too often, I see authors and other creative types sell out to the highest bidder in hopes of fame and fortune, only to see their hard work taken in a different direction at best or driven into the ground at worst because the company did not share their vision. It may even succeed to an extent and bring a tidy profit, but it could have been better. Perhaps the business end got greedy, perhaps some faceless executive puppet decided that something needed to change for some arbitrary reason, or perhaps a director wanted to slant the work to be more "progressive" so as to cater to certain special interest groups. Whatever the cause, the result is unequivocally less than it could have been.

My vision is set in stone. I must be fully involved in, retain ownership of, and have full creative control of, any production relating to my works. What I have written, I have written for a reason. There is no room for deviation. There will be no creative liberties taken by anyone who is not me. The production quality will be pristine and expensive: the music and sound will be excellent, the acting will be excellent, the animation and cinematography will be excellent. I will settle for nothing less. If any of this is dismissed, the project will fail before it even starts.

My works are not a pawn in your company's game of financial chess. Art comes first, profit comes second. Profit is simply a happy corollary to the flow of creativity unimpeded by executive meddling. I must be allowed total control of whatever project might spring from our collaboration, and profit will come because things are working as they should. Taking my vision in a different direction might still bring profit, but staying true to my vision will bring more. I am aware that there are trends which companies blindly follow for the sake of maximizing profits, but I am also aware that trends are usually nothing more than the enforced opinions of myopic influencers and blustering businessmen whose only goal is to manipulate, make money, and be worshiped. If you are worried that my ideas will not succeed because the zephyrs of popular opinion suggest I need to change my thinking, then you may see yourself out the door. Go. Shoo.

Similarly, if you are worried that you will lose millions upon millions of dollars because I decided to reject a mid-production demand of the corporate man-child that your company refers to as a CEO (or other tier of leadership), then please exit this metaphorical office now before it's too late. No amount of payment -- not millions, billions, or trillions of dollars -- will break my resolve to stay the course for my artistic vision.

Perhaps you agree with me. Perhaps you see the potential in my vision and wish to provide a platform upon which my works will thrive unhindered. Perhaps you are serious and will treat our dealings as an investment rather than a mere business deal. I have a contact page, and I happily invite you to make good use of it.

One thing must never be forgotten: My vision is my vision, and it is unwavering.


Addendum

I am a liability when it comes to political correctness. I stopped caring about people's glass emotions long ago, and I will happily disregard any arbitrary rules created by some snowflake entity to trample my right to free speech. If this is inexcusable according to your policies, then I advise you to run screaming at earliest convenience.