MAMET IS RIGHT!

Been reading a book of interviews with the famous playwright and on one page he says:

Right, I'm going to say something heretical. My experience has been that literal actual art flourishes better without government support. On the other hand, having come up the hard way as everybody does in show business, it would be nice to see if some people could be helped. I'm torn between wanting to see them helped and wondering if the government's subsidising - even a little - this fellow's performance art. Well, I object to a lot of the pablum that gets grant money. I think people who get that money would be better left to their own devices and eventually to lapse back into the real estate business.

In Ireland we have the Film Board funding rubbish made by rubbish filmmakers. People who can't do anything without pre-production 'loans', script editors, and doing everything 'right'. People who think they've got talent because they got a stupid IFTA nomination. The true film artists are the ones making stuff by themselves, the outsiders, scraping by, and not needing permission to do things. Sadly in short supply in this country.