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There are of course good businessperson led movies and bad businessperson led movies. The same is true for creative led movies. Maybe the "explore the liminal space of boredom" movie is bad, but that description certainly sounds more interesting than a bad version of Transformers 7 or whatever.

Creative led projects are at least personal and that gives them a unique quality even if the project is an overall failure.

>I guess what I want is not a money man as such, just an editor with a bit of power as an objective source of improvement.

Editors would generally be considered creatives and not businesspeople. There is also no such thing as "an objective source of improvement" when it comes to art.