Brett Martin writing in GQ reports that “Jerry Seinfeld Says Movies Are Over.”

While promoting his new Netflix movie “Unfrosted,” the billionaire comedian talks about his directing debut.

“These movie people are unbelievable. They’re insane…. They’re so dead serious! They don’t have any idea that the movie business is over. They have no idea…. Film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives. When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now we’re walking through a fire hose of water, just trying to see.”

Brett asks, “What do you think has replaced film?”

“Depression? Malaise? I would say confusion. Disorientation replaced the movie business. Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, What’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now?”

Jerry Seinfeld closes by reveiling his philosophy:

“There’s nothing I revile quite as much as a dilettante. I don’t like doing something to a mediocre level. It’s great to be 70, because you really get to preach with some authority: Get good at something. That’s it. Everything else is bullshit.”

My take: Great advice. To me, Seinfeld remains one of the best TV sitcoms of all time.