Key Highlights
- “I think anything that is going to be authentically thought of as art has to come from the human being.
- Otherwise — haven’t you heard these songs that are mashups that are just absolutely brilliant and you go, ‘Oh my God, this is Michael Jackson doing The Weeknd,’ or ‘This is funk from the A Tribe Called Quest song “Bonita Applebum,” done in, you know, a sort of Al Green soul-song voice, and it’s brilliant.’ And you go, ‘Cool.’ But then it gets its 15 minutes of fame and it just dissipates into the ether of other internet junk.
- There’s no anchoring to it.
- There’s no humanity to it, as brilliant as it is.” Watch on Deadline Related Stories Commentary Golden Globes Analysis: Arthouse Rules As Subtitled International Films Crash Party; Plus Voters Rubber-Stamp The Emmys News One Accolade After Another: Leonardo DiCaprio Is Time's Entertainer Of The Year Moreover, he contemplated how cinema may change in the coming years, adding, “I was just thinking the other day, I wonder what the next most shocking thing is going to be in cinema.
- Because so much has been done that has moved the needle, and some of these directors are so talented right now and doing such a multitude of different things at the same time: What’s going to be the next thing that rattles people and shocks people cinematically?” As entertainment industry stalwarts reckon with AI potentially encroaching on their livelihoods, numerous high-profile professionals — Guillermo del Toro, Celine Song and Denis Villeneuve among them — have slammed the technology and declared it has no place in the moviemaking process.
