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Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.
Martin Scorsese
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Interpretation

What this quote means

An artist's role is to engage their audience with their passions and interests.

This quote by Martin Scorsese highlights the importance of connecting with the audience through one's creative passions. It emphasizes that the effectiveness of storytelling or artistic expression lies in the ability to share personal obsessions and themes that resonate, thereby fostering a deeper emotional investment from the audience.

Themes

AudienceObsessionsArtStorytellingPassion

In practice

Example use cases

A filmmaker discussing their latest movie in a public Q&A session.

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