Charlie Kaufman criticises studio bosses over “disgusting” pay packages

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Variety. “No, they do damage is what they do. They do damage to the art form. And by doing that, they do damage to humanity.

And if everything is about the bottom line for them and saving money, then there’s nothing left to the art form.”The screenwriter was in Sarajevo to receive a lifetime achievement award, and has been spotted out and about wearing a T-shirt reading “Writers Guild on Strike”.

Variety reported that during an interview he revealed a second layer with a WGA-branded T-shirt underneath.While speaking at a masterclass on Monday (August 14), Kaufman also said that the different between art and “conventional Hollywood fare” is “the difference between truth and bullshit”.“Studios are going to continue to exist and people are going to continue to make garbage because garbage at this point… makes a fortune,” he said.Kaufman elaborated while speaking to Variety, saying: “[Studio heads] are not ushering in any kind of beautiful work by their presence.

They’re kind of doing the opposite of that. And I think it’s evidenced in what Hollywood produces, and how the more expensive a movie is, the less value it has to the culture,” he said.Asked whether he think studio bosses are too out of touch to fully understand the labour talks, he said: “I think they grasp it.