What This Generation Was Bred To At

Irresponsibility Is Part Of The Pleasure Of All Art; It Is The Part The Schools Cannot Recognize.

Good Movies Make You Care, Make You Believe In Possibilities Again. If Somewhere In The Hollywood-entertainment World Someone Has Managed To Break Through With Something That Speaks To You, Then It Isn’t All Corruption. The Movie Doesn’t Have To Be Great; It Can Be Stupid And Empty And You Can Still Have The Joy Of A Good Performance, Or The Joy In Just A Good Line. An Actor’s Scowl, A Small Subversive Gesture, A Dirty Remark That Someone Tosses Off With A Mock-innocent Face, And The World Makes A Little Bit Of Sense.

At The Movies, We Are Gradually Being Conditioned To Accept Violence As A Sensual Pleasure. The Directors Used To Say They Were Showing Us Its Real Face And How Ugly It Was In Order To Sensitize Us To Its Horrors. You Don't Have To Be Very Keen To See That They Are Now In Fact Desensitizing Us.

All Our Advertising Is Propaganda, Of Course, But It Has Become So Much A Part Of Our Life, Is So Pervasive, That We Just Don't Know What It Is Propaganda For.

Allowing For Exceptions, There Is Still One Basic Difference Between The Traditional Arts And The Mass-media Arts: In The Traditional Arts, The Artist Grows; In A Mass Medium, The Artist Decays Profitably.