There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
Interpretation
There is a demand for thoughtful and human-centered films that deserve recognition and creation.
This quote by Alexander Payne highlights the importance of creating films that prioritize depth, reflection, and human experiences. It suggests that there is a niche audience that appreciates slower-paced, more contemplative storytelling, which is valuable in the cinematic landscape, emphasizing the need for filmmakers to cater to these viewers by producing such works.
In practice
During a film seminar, I might quote this to encourage filmmakers to embrace depth in storytelling.
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.
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