Quote of the Day

". . . the risks of making a film forced the businessmen to be risk averse, to play to the least critical audience: Teenage boys with disposable income. The problem is how to keep this "average" moviegoer, male, 16 to 25, high-school education at best, doesn't read books, gets his news from the eleven o'clock news if he bothers at all, never heard of Mussolini and thinks Korea is another part of downtown LA – this couch potato, this pimply undereducated oversexed slob with the attention span of a chicken – how do we keep him awake and interested, while staying awake and interested ourselves."
--From screenwriter/director Frank Pierson's commencement address to the 2003 USC film-school graduating class

And that's why they don't make 'em like they used to, film fans.

The full text is at Up Close and Personal.