People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
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Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.
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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