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Alex Gibney

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

Well, I understood that TV isn't about the conversation between a creator and a viewer. You're about renting viewers to advertisers.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

And that the creators aren't really creators at all. You're just providing the catnip that is just tasty enough It's good enough to lure you in so that you'll stay for half an hour and please the advertisers. And the last thing they want is any kind of personality or originality.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

And that the creators aren't really creators at all. You're just providing the catnip that is just tasty enough It's good enough to lure you in so that you'll stay for half an hour and please the advertisers. And the last thing they want is any kind of personality or originality.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

And that the creators aren't really creators at all. You're just providing the catnip that is just tasty enough It's good enough to lure you in so that you'll stay for half an hour and please the advertisers. And the last thing they want is any kind of personality or originality.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

It felt awesome. And not only did they write bigger and better checks for it, but, you know, sometimes you could take a swing and make it for a little bit of money and sell it for a lot. And there was a tremendous amount of excitement because it was about how do you do something weird and original that was seen as a market benefit.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

It felt awesome. And not only did they write bigger and better checks for it, but, you know, sometimes you could take a swing and make it for a little bit of money and sell it for a lot. And there was a tremendous amount of excitement because it was about how do you do something weird and original that was seen as a market benefit.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

It felt awesome. And not only did they write bigger and better checks for it, but, you know, sometimes you could take a swing and make it for a little bit of money and sell it for a lot. And there was a tremendous amount of excitement because it was about how do you do something weird and original that was seen as a market benefit.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

Ha ha ha!

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

Ha ha ha!

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

Ha ha ha!

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

Kind of, because when I made it, even in the first five minutes of that film, there's a lot going on. There's a recreation of a suicide. There's a strange Tom Waits song called, What's He Building In There?, It was an odd and idiosyncratic film in many ways. Now, it was about something that was famous. Yeah. You know, the collapse of Enron.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

Kind of, because when I made it, even in the first five minutes of that film, there's a lot going on. There's a recreation of a suicide. There's a strange Tom Waits song called, What's He Building In There?, It was an odd and idiosyncratic film in many ways. Now, it was about something that was famous. Yeah. You know, the collapse of Enron.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

Kind of, because when I made it, even in the first five minutes of that film, there's a lot going on. There's a recreation of a suicide. There's a strange Tom Waits song called, What's He Building In There?, It was an odd and idiosyncratic film in many ways. Now, it was about something that was famous. Yeah. You know, the collapse of Enron.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

But I kept asking people, kind of like David Chase kept asking himself, as a cinematographer told me, he's like, is anybody going to watch this shit? And that's what I kept wondering, like, is it going to get into Sundance? Like, is anybody going to watch this?

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

But I kept asking people, kind of like David Chase kept asking himself, as a cinematographer told me, he's like, is anybody going to watch this shit? And that's what I kept wondering, like, is it going to get into Sundance? Like, is anybody going to watch this?

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

But I kept asking people, kind of like David Chase kept asking himself, as a cinematographer told me, he's like, is anybody going to watch this shit? And that's what I kept wondering, like, is it going to get into Sundance? Like, is anybody going to watch this?

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

It was like what I called a taxi driver film. Like you'd be riding in a taxi and the taxi driver would be saying, hey, man, have you seen that Enron movie? Enron was nominated for an Oscar.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

It was like what I called a taxi driver film. Like you'd be riding in a taxi and the taxi driver would be saying, hey, man, have you seen that Enron movie? Enron was nominated for an Oscar.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

It was like what I called a taxi driver film. Like you'd be riding in a taxi and the taxi driver would be saying, hey, man, have you seen that Enron movie? Enron was nominated for an Oscar.

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A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

So there was something terrifying at the heart of it that said something very deep and disturbing about human nature. And also it was told as a story about a poor innocent who got caught in a machine, you know, of cruelty.