I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.
Interpretation
Storytelling should inspire audiences rather than simply entertain or exploit them.
Mark Frost emphasizes the responsibility storytellers have towards their audiences, suggesting that they should aim to inspire and create new heroes instead of relying on outdated narratives. This perspective encourages creativity and innovation in storytelling, prioritizing the audience's experience and empowerment over mere entertainment.
In practice
Using this quote in a writing workshop to inspire aspiring authors.
I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts.
So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
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