From A List Apart: The Full Feed –Why Aren?t You Asking Questions?:
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It's the kickoff meeting. You are the lead designer on the project, and this is the first meeting with everyone in the room. Your client is reciting her wish list, and you're taking diligent notes – probably with cute, relatable doodles. An hour passes, and you've barely said a sentence. You're nodding your head, scarcely making eye contact. You have some thoughts, but you aren't speaking up. Why aren't you speaking up? You've likely been burned in the past. Perhaps you've shared some ideas and they were turned down. You have felt embarrassed in meetings. Projects that you put your heart and soul into were changed at the last minute without your consultation or discarded, apparently without a second thought….
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Suicide Squad received mostly negative reviews upon release, though to say that the vast majority of those were too harsh would be an understatement. For the most part, fans (and regular moviegoers) have embraces the big screen debut of Task Force X, and that's something which has shown at the box office. With that in mind, David Ayer has taken to Twitter to thank everyone for making it a hit. Box Office Mojo currently has Suicide Squad down as having earned a total of $582 million worldwide – $269 million domestic, $313 million foreign – but Ayer clearly has some more up to date figures as he's talking here about the movie having earned a whopping $600 million. With no China release planned, it remains to be seen how much higher it will go and if $700 million is going to be a possibility…
