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Woody Allen
the new, back in top form, keen-eye-for-the-nuances -of-British-class-warfare Woody Allen
recently subjected himself to an interview with Current, a college campus magazine, in which he was asked for some words of advice for any youngsters out there who aspire to follow in his showbiz footsteps:
Current: Young people aiming to go into film are now, more frequently than in the past, attending film school. You never did. Do you think it is harder to break into the industry now? Any words of advice for an aspiring filmmaker?
Allen: It's a great career - IF - you make it. Anything less is terrible. It's a very unhealthy industry powered by intense greed and artistic sterility. Observe how moronically hard it is for anyone to get a project done. I've never seen anything so ridiculous. My advice is to avoid it unless you have a total compulsion to make movies and unless you're very lucky, you're in for a rough time of it.
If a true auteur like Allen, who has released almost one autonomously realized feature a year for decades now, can honestly complain about "how moronically hard" it is to get films made, imagine what it must be like for the rest of the directors working in Hollywood to get their visions up on the screen. Some have even been rumored to go so far as dressing up in outlandish superhero costumes and pouncing around executives' offices just to get a job, a technique which has proven not entirely unsuccessful.
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