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The Future of Filmmaking

Eastman Kodak Company 2001

Robert McLachlan, CSC

Years ago when Adobe Illustrator first came out, we were all being told that now anyone could be a graphic designer and commercial illustrator. But it turned out that if you couldn’t design a good layout without a computer, you sure weren’t going to be able to do one with a computer. The same rule applies any time a new tool or technology comes along.

“Technology doesn’t make art. Artists make art. They may use technology to make it easier, or faster, or different, or new, but without an original idea behind it — with something to say, masterfully executed — it ain’t art.

“Art doesn’t come out of a computer or digital camera any more than it comes out of a tube of oil paint; it comes out of artists. A dilettante might disagree, remember what Oscar Wilde said about them: “A dilettante is a person who thinks he can pick a leaf from the laurel tree of art without paying for it with his life.”