Ştefan Ciobotăraşu

Ştefan Ciobotăraşu about...
...the audience: “The audience is our <tide>, of the artists, just as the artist, in exceptional cases, may have a strong power of attraction over the audience. This high tide, low tide type of connection of our audience with us erases the footprints of our gameon the sand, or gives them a certain durability. Maybe stolen by the mechanism, by this periodicity which became a law, we enter a certain second nature and we forget, we don`t often see in detail all the implications of our art in relation to the audience. This habit-profession, in the good sense of the word, must have the attitude and the consistency of great love stories which turned into lasting marriages. The divorces mean the getting old or the death of the artist.
Actually, the audience is the one who selects the spiritual partner, the confessor that it needs in order to convey its great truths to, in a sincere communion, unmystified and unsophisticated. And the growth of the audience`s level of appreciation makes us feel more responsible, because it represents the reality which is alive. Out of a normal curiosity, the audience doesn`t reject the fake ones immediately, it lets them exhaust themselves, only to return faithfully to its major truths. The audience is the artist`s seismograph of accessibility. Who can feel its pulse notices that this accessibility is placed under the sign of the culture and of the intellectual joy. There is a great tendency in our audience towards the lyrical, the humourous or critical approach. I wonder why there is such a lack of lyrical impetus in our film productions? Why is our audience sometimes forced to take his eyes off some of the films?” (Cinema no. 6, June 1968)