What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm tired of demographic appeal being more important than talent. I want to fight against that.
Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture.
There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.
There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.