6.19.2010

HOLLYWOOD NEEDS A REVOLUTION...(AND PEOPLE WHO CAN READ)!

JULIE GRAY IN HUFFINGTON POST:

Hollywood has become a corporate wasteland and the results are so plainly obvious that it's painful. It is time for a new generation of visionary writers and directors in Hollywood. Those driven by raw creativity. (...)

(...) Don't even try to go there and deny that a terrible fog of mediocrity is hanging over Hollywood. And it's choking the art form of cinema to death. The worst part is that the mediocrity is self-generated because I tell you right now that I see some great scripts and really fresh ideas come from aspiring writers from all over the world. But these scripts don't make it into the right hands. There is an industry around keeping them out and unfortunately that industry is in part fueled by the millions of scripts that pour into Hollywood each day that were written hastily by dabblers and pretenders who haven't bothered to learn a goddamn thing about the industry they flippantly think will pay them loads of money (...)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-gray/hollywood-needs-a-revolut_b_616934.html