So beautiful! Serling's definitely on our dinner invite list (as are you, Scott), should he ever choose to frequent our realm again.

Some quotes from Fellini, courtesy of brainyquotes: The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world; It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. Fellini understood about the audience, what a huge role they have in the whole art endeavor. And he got what a pleasure we artists have, actually making the stuff.

I'm fascinated by how some art is very timely, and other art transcends, its universality evident over time. The best artists, like Mozart, made work that entirely engaged his own audience, and still engages us centuries later.

From Serling, "90% of writers... will deliberately prostitute and write downwards to the lowest common denominator." Egads, what would Serling make of the reality tv genre.

Reality TV is proof that humanity has entered the Twilight Zone. Serling would probably laugh at us but lament that the condition appears to be permanent.

Orci and Kurtzman should be strapped to chairs and made to watch that video a million times.

I think that the audience, even if it's one person, is essential to art. Art is creating an emotional experience in another person. At least, that's the working definition I go by. (And yes, many years of thought and debates in grad school go into that.)