An ad agency's job is to write- or as it seems to be, fail to write- decent television commercials. It's not nice or smart to degrade insecure people, but it's also unacceptable for insecure people to project their garbage onto you like they do. They also need to come to terms with the fact that they are paying directors thousands of dollars a day to polish their mostly crappy ideas. They are paying the director for what he is supposed to do- give them a decent commercial.
When are ad agencies going to see the irrationality behind giving a director one of their ideas, but then preventing him from doing so whilst they empty their pockets of money. Why, when so much money is at stake, would an agency want to PAY to "shoot themselves in the foot"?
To advertising Agencies: You have selected a professional to do what you're paying him to do. Do you want a good commercial? Yes or no? If yes, then sit down in Video Villiage, sip your Starbucks lattes, stop trying to control everything, and let the director do what you are paying him over 10K a day to do. Okay? Okay.
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