Art is rarely made by nice people. You need to have a certain level of ego and narcissism. Many of Hollywood's great directors had their own personal demons.
Do you have actual factual support for that? Because plenty of great art is made by actually perfectly normal people who do not enjoy torturing others.
The business or local culture here and there sometimes favors sociopath and enable them to the maximum. That is however different claim.
I don’t know about _rarely_, but I think it is like rich people, most of the had to dish out a lot of pain and misery to get where they are. Sure, there are occasional examples where the rise to rishes doesn’t take that path, but it’s pretty rare. I say this as a 40 year founder having watched many of my peers become rich in a pretty horrific way. And me liking to sleep at nogjt being nice and not rich.
Collaborative art requires, I think, a strong hand and it’s often rough over people’s feelings.
> Collaborative art requires, I think, a strong hand and it’s often rough over people’s feelings.
I would say the opposite. Collaboration, including in art, have better results if the people running the show are not complete assholes.
A strong hand "rough over people’s feelings" is more likely to end up with completely crappy result. It does not mean that being doormat would get you good results, but these kind of people destroy team motivation and engagement - regardless of whether we talk about software development or art.
