Stiller, Apatow, Bateman debate using AI in filmmaking
(19 Feb 2023)
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1. Judd Apatow posing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Judd Apatow, director:
"I'm all for doing no work. You know, if there's a machine that could do my work for me and I get paid the same, do it, Then I'll go get a massage. (Reporter: Do you think it takes the human element out of it?) It probably does for comedy. It's hard for computers to write comedy. I've tried, I've asked it, and it did not solve any of my problems. No, I did. I said, 'Write this monologue.' And it was terrible."
3. Ben Stiller posing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ben Stiller, director/actor:
"I mean, I think it would be a fun experiment, you know, because in a way, you know, that the process of development of a script, especially with studio movies where there's a lot of different, you know, ideas of what you're supposed to do is kind of like what that is. But it's kind of fascinating. Somebody should do it for sure."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Bateman, director/actor:
"Yeah. No, I'm not interested in directing a fucking movie that a robot writes. No."
7. Eric Appel giving interview
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Appel, director:
"I feel like AI is learning how to write from other people's produced scripts that already exist. So in a sense, it's like a cut and pasted rip off of a million other movies you've seen, which like the complicated argument is that like, maybe that, as a writer, that's what I do as well. I'm influenced by everything that I see."
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