Ratings Have Changed, Viewer Habits Have Changed

I Do Think There's Something About The Digital Age That Is Increasingly Dehumanising Us. We're In This Very Weird Place Where We're Being Pulled Into Experiences That Aren't Really Experiences At All.

'star Wars: Episode Iv - A New Hope' (1977) Is Probably The Most Influential Film Of My Generation. That Work Was The Personification Of Good And Evil And The Way It Opened Up The World To Space Adventure, The Way Westerns Had To Our Parents' Generations, It Left An Indelible Imprint. So, In A Way, Everything That Any Of Us Does Is Somehow Directly Or Indirectly Affected By The Experience Of Seeing Those First Three Films.

Maybe There Are Times When Mystery Is More Important Than Knowledge. I Realized That The White Page Is A Magic Box. Ultimately, The Mistery Box Is All Of Us. Ubiquitous Technologies. What Comes Next ? Mystery As Catalyst For Imagination.

I Quickly Said That, Because Of My Loyalty To 'star Trek' And Also Just Being A Fan, I Wouldn’t Even Want To Be Involved In The Next Version Of Those Things. I Declined Any Involvement Very Early On. I’d Rather Be In The Audience Not Knowing What Was Coming, Rather Than Being Involved In The Minutiae Of Making Them.

On Movies Like Star Trek And Star Wars, You Have So Much That Will Be Created Or Extended Digitally, And It's A Slippery Slope Where You Can Get Lost In A World Of Synthetic.