Day 8 - In Defence of Frustrated Artists

 

Working on a screenplay

You'd think there'd always be a frisson in the air at these press screenings. You'd think there'd be a prickly dissatisfaction, what with all these frustrated artists sitting about, judging and condemning, jaded by their tired unchanging opinions.

But much as I love Anton Ego's soliloquy at the end of Ratatouille, I think critics often make the most passionate and sensitive audience. And being a failed artist is no shame. You have to be failed artist to make a good critic.