A Quote by David Foster Wallace
Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.
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My idea is to provide maximum entertainment to audiences who want to experience the horror factor, laced with comedy that provides the relief.
Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.
Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.
We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.
I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end of the day I want it to be remembered for its artistic value as well as its entertainment value.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.
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