Thomas Dolby – HuffPost 10.14.13

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Thomas Dolby: I almost feel like they don’t need my advice because it’s such a wide world for them to explore without needing to pay for an A&R man. But I think the thing is the conventional advice from the old guard in the film industry is, “Oh, it’s all about the arc of story.” I actually don’t think that’s the case. I think that today’s generation have, in a way, gotten beyond merely story telling and they’ve gotten into just being in the moment. In a game, you create the moment yourself with the context and there doesn’t need to be the through line of a story. So in my film, it’s almost like the workings of your mind. Your private thoughts don’t have a linear storyline, they jump around, you get free association. My film has a lot more of that than a conventional film story arc.