“Adrienne Rich wrote, ‘I do know that art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage.
“The world is beautiful. The world is impossibly complicated. And we have the opportunity to explore that. If we give that up for the carrot, then we might as well be the executives.
“I have dropped the ball, I have wasted years seeking the approval of people with money. Don’t get trapped in their world of box office numbers. You don’t work for the world of box-office numbers. You work for the world. Just make your story honest and tell it.
“They’ve tricked us into thinking we can’t do it without them. The truth is they can’t do anything of value without us.”
HE to Kaufman: Since when have the suits wanted to do “anything of value”? Haven’t they pretty nuch shut that shit down?