My grievance isn't with art that is commercial, but art that is consumerist.

Many are quick to dismiss those who pursue the arts, insisting a degree in one useless or a vow of poverty appropriate, yet wouldn’t want to live in a world without music, literature, television, or videogame.

Somewhere along the way, the conversation was shifted away from the vision of directors to that of producers. Yes, art is commerce, but I sometimes wonder if general audiences truly like art, or do they prefer accounting?

What other nations fail to recognize in us--our consumerism--is that we don't simply want to own everything, we want to be everything.