When he gave the San Francisco State Of Cinema Address at the 56th SFIFF, Steven Soderbergh nailed it, several times over actually. In regards to the privilege of getting to make movies, he said that “the only way to repay that karmic debt is to make something good, is to make something ambitious, something beautiful, something memorable”.
That’s true, right? That’s the deal. That’s the deal in front of us every day. The deal on the table, day in and day out. But do people abide by it?
Most people exchange their labor for things they don’t care about and the money is supposed to make it all worth while. And we know how well that works, how far forward that structure has brought us, right? Money
