Direct Creative Blog had a post today about the above YouTube video. I loved the video. First, credit to Direct Creative.

Harlan Ellison gets very angry. He uses several bad words. It’s a great interview. Some money quotes:

“Everybody else may be an asshole, but I’m not. I said, “By what right would you call me and ask me to work for nothing? Do you get a paycheck?”

then,

Harlan Ellison: “How dare you call me and want me to work for nothing?”
PR Hack: “Well it would be good publicity.”
Harlan Ellison: “Lady, tell that to someone a little older than you who has just fallen off the turnip truck.”

then,

“They always want you to work for nothing.”

I know that my clients have an easier time paying for 2,000 words of worthless drivel than 200 words of tight prose that says more, says it better, and is actually worth the going rate.

I think Harlan Ellison knows that, too.