The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.
Statement about issue management in the Internet age.
What we have got to do - especially with younger people, especially with people not heavily involved in the political process - is to make sure that every morning, afternoon, and evening, they are seeing the presentation of issues that are relevant to their lives.
A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
A legislator has thousands of issues he must decide. Five minutes of access to present your case is very valuable.
That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.
How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.