Monday, October 27, 2003
Lesson 20: From Frank Pierson
Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what
dreams and ideals are to individual lives: they express the mystery and help
define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming. ....
Go and make a cinema and TV that express our history and our ideas, and
that foster respect for a civilization in real danger of self destruction.
Be decision-makers with dreams and hopes instead of raw ambition. Tell
stories that illuminate our times and our souls. That waken the sleeping angel
inside the beast.
from commencement address to the 2003 USC film school graduating class
by
Frank Pierson - president of the Academy of Motion Pictures and
Sciences
Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what
dreams and ideals are to individual lives: they express the mystery and help
define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming. ....
Go and make a cinema and TV that express our history and our ideas, and
that foster respect for a civilization in real danger of self destruction.
Be decision-makers with dreams and hopes instead of raw ambition. Tell
stories that illuminate our times and our souls. That waken the sleeping angel
inside the beast.
from commencement address to the 2003 USC film school graduating class
by
Frank Pierson - president of the Academy of Motion Pictures and
Sciences
