Comment by scotty79

Best creators are a little mad. Their best work is usually early work when their madness is tempered by limitations and other people around them.

But when success comes they become too big, rich and influential and their next movies are pretty much whatever they want them to be. And they are crap, because pinch of salt of their madness becomes whole dish.

It happened with Ridley Scott, George Lucas, Neill Blomkamp, probably some others.

It's also said that a director makes the same movie for entirety of their career. It's very visible in case of Ridley Scott. His later movies hit again and again the same perverse things that he consistently finds exciting.