Michael Kutsche(@michaelkutsche):💡Question for the AI skeptics who tell every filmmaker using AI tools to “learn to hold a pencil” or “learn Blender”: What do Spielberg, Lucas, Scorsese, Nolan, Fincher and Kubrick have in common? None of them are celebrated as visionary filmmakers because they could model and rig a 3D character, animate a walk cycle, sew a costume or build a film set themselves. They’re celebrated because filmmaking has never required the director to personally master every craft. It requires vision, taste, judgment, and the ability to orchestrate many different crafts into a coherent film. That’s literally the director’s job. Funny how that principle suddenly becomes controversial when some of the tools are AI.

2026.09.07 20:12

💡Question for the AI skeptics who tell every filmmaker using AI tools to “learn to hold a pencil” or “learn Blender”: What do Spielberg, Lucas, Scorsese, Nolan, Fincher and Kubrick have in common? None of them are celebrated as visionary filmmakers because they could model and rig a 3D character, animate a walk cycle, sew a costume or build a film set themselves. They’re celebrated because filmmaking has never required the director to personally master every craft. It requires vision, taste, judgment, and the ability to orchestrate many different crafts into a coherent film. That’s literally the director’s job. Funny how that principle suddenly becomes controversial when some of the tools are AI.