If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money; and instead of training the audience by giving them inspiring works of art, you are merely training the artist to ensure his own income. For their part, the audience will continue, their contentment unalloyed, to feel they are right—seldom a well founded conviction. The failure to develop the audience’s capacity to criticize our own judgments is tantamount to treating them with total indifference.-Andrey Tarkovsky
