“Starting”?

“Cinema, the world’s youngest muse, is starting to show distinct signs of dimentia… The world has a fever. Societies are ill and frightened. The cinema feels it and – not knowing how to deal with the disease – pretends there is no fever and so continues to play the waltz on the modern day Titanic.”

(Polish director, Agnieszka Holland, speaking at the Dutch Film Fest, 9/26/04)