AI's Impact on Pop Culture in 2025

“It misses the fact that cinema is completely made up of all kinds of augmentation from lighting to colorization, to the ways in which sound is recorded and shifted and altered in the postproduction process.”

“I call it artist development, reengineered.”

“I think we have to understand this as a movie adaptation. You can make a really good argument that AI here is adapting a preexisting film into something that mostly looks just like the original film, but is greatly expanded.”

“It entirely undermines the art form. The thing you’re listening for is a window into someone else’s consciousness. That is the whole ballgame.”

“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, overprocessed hot dogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs-up and like it. Gross.”

“To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation.”

“AI, particularly generative AI — I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I’m 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak.”

“I’m not negative about generative AI. I just wanted to point out we don’t use it on the 'Avatar' films. We honor and celebrate actors. We don’t replace actors. That’s going to find its level. I think Hollywood will be self-policing on that. We’ll find our way through that.”