I wanted to share with you one more quote from film director Aaron Rose (see previous post for more info on him). He's talking about film-making today, but I think it applies pretty much to all the arts and maybe beyond:
"I don’t want to come off as a hater – because everyone is entitled to make whatever they want to make, and be successful at it or whatever – but the idea of independent film as it exists today is such a sham, because even the real indie films are just mimicries of Hollywood movies. Even the ones that don’t have stars, and they’re trying to be like, “We made this on a shoestring budget,” still mimic the structure. There’s still this aspiration of being normal, just being the same old film over and over again. There’s not a whole lot of experimentation, in my opinion… but I think that’s in everything. I think the music industry is very similar too. It’s just the times we live in. People have aspirations and they feel their way of doing it is to mimic what’s being done at the top. That’s sad."
The full interview with Aaron Rose is here.
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