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Top Creators Tell Us What Gets Their Attention

What gets the attention of the most creative people in entertainment?

For Spike Jonze, it’s unapologetic individuality.

“Anything that resonates with me -- whether it’s Louis C.K. or Samantha Bee or Kendrick Lamar or Chance The Rapper -- it feels like [the work] is coming from somebody with a very specific point of view who’s unapologetic about that point of view,” the Oscar-winning filmmaker said from the main stage, in Cannes, on Thursday.

For fellow Oscar-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu, it’s music.

“I think the most precious and clear, straightforward and direct human expression is music,” Iñárritu said during his time on main stage, on Thursday.

“I think music is the most pure art form,” he explained in his thick accent. “It’s invisible … it’s intangible … and it jus hits emotion chords … You don’t have rationalize it … there’s no language … there’s no barriers … you fly hearing or making music.”

More broadly, “The Revenant” director said: “We as human beings have a huge, vast emotional territory in ourselves.”

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