A great quote from George Lucas, when asked at the D: All Things Digital conference what he thought about Internet video:

"There are two forms of entertaining. Circus is random. And voyeuristic. It’s basically what you see on YouTube now. I call it feeding Christians to the lions. The movie term is throwing puppies on a freeway. It’s very easy. You sit there and see what happens….

Then you get to art. Art is where a person contrives the situation and tells a story, and hopefully that story reveals the truth behind the facts. Storytelling is trying to come up with an idea that is insightful in terms of giving you a different insight into how things work, or is amusing."

I definitely strive more for creating art than circus. And I admit that every once in awhile, I’m prone to being part of the circus.