Still from The Leopard (1963) "This movie is about a time and a place and a process and a series of events that shaped California in an interesting way." David Fincher during preproduction on Zodiac. "When I pitched this movie to the studio all I said was "it's set in the 70s - like that's a story, like that's a selling point. And they were like "that's interesting.' But I felt this obligation to the seventies." Richard Linklater on Dazed And Confused Sometimes artists can be more interested...

Seeing a film in a cinema with a live audience is a sacred space. It is the essence of the origins of storytelling.

Indeed, through internet sites like Project Gutenberg I can read now some of the greatest works that humans have ever created! It is of course, ultimately up to us what we are to do with all of it - even if the decision is to have a machine “decide” for us.