“Look at the movies people are watching,” he said, sitting in his Upper West Side apartment and shaking his head. “They’re about nothing. You invest nothing.” Mr. DiCillo blames, in part, the events of September 2001. “People can’t invest real emotion because it’s too terrifying.”
“Have you ever noticed,” he asked, “that the entertainment business is the only one where there has never been somebody picking up a machine gun and going berserk? A guy in a post office in Cincinnati will bring an AK-47 into his place of business because somebody used his coffee cup. Nothing like that has ever happened in the film business and never will. Never will. You know why? The stakes are too high. It’s life and death. No one is ever going to jeopardize their place in the food chain.
“I’m not suggesting they do,” he said with a smile, “but it’s a brutal business.”
Full Disclosure: I wrote and produced a short film years ago about paparazzi. So I can't wait to see DeCillo's new film. Mmmm.
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That alone may recommend the business to any number of people who've never seriously considered job-seeking there before. Which could have consequences in either direction.
Wow, sorry, but I think he’s pretty full of himself, and full of shit. The only business no one’s ever shot up their coworkers because it's life and death? Get over yourself, dude. I’d disagree with his sentiment that movies today are about nothing, too, (except his, I presume), but I think it’s pretty clear the guy needs to get out more.
Full of himself: clearly
The rest, I suspect, was a bit of hyperbole.
Although those people ("what I do is very important") is legion...
Hyperbole becomes complete shit pretty quickly. You lose the game when you call someone you disagree with a Nazi; you also lose when you call making a movie life and death.
yeah, but it's *movie* life and death!
The blood is corn syrup and the bullet holes are silicone, and the cockroaches are watched over by the American Humane Society.
Also, I'm pretty sure no Nazis were harmed in the making of DeCillo's films.
Okay, maybe one or two.
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