I Know Why The Caged Filmmaker Sings ...

Doing some reading before tonight's much anticipated Nathaniel Dorsky show at the Archive I came across this interview with Dorsky from Dec 2006. I thought this was amusing:

SFBG I'd never thought of filmmaking as a mating call, but you're right.

ND Many people don't understand that, and they try to win their mate by making horrible and aggressive conceptually based films. No one is drawn to them, and then they get even more conceptual and aggressive. It can be a downward spiral.

So what's the bad mating call equivalent of criticism?

UPDATE: Because I know we all got into this to get laid, right?