“If you want to put me in one camp, I’m anti-AI, especially when it comes to art. . . I don’t want to scream about AI, but I want more competent people than me to get in a room and steer us in a safer direction.”
That’s Kane Parsons, from an interview in IndieWire on Nov. 10, 2026.
Kane Parsons has expressed his distaste for generative AI in art before. While promoting his movie Backrooms earlier this year, he told interviewers from CBS Mornings that he would “absolutely not” embrace AI in the films he creates. His reasoning, as he explained at the time, came down to seeing art as a way of processing life, and not wanting to outsource any part of that process.
In a new interview with IndieWire, Parsons was once again asked about AI. He said that he didn’t want to make a “big narrative” out of it and doesn’t necessarily want to be seen as the Gen Z director “championing an anti-AI stance,” but he made it clear that he isn’t interested in using AI in his art. He added that no artist friend of his “wants anything to do with generative tools.”
Many people in the film industry are embracing AI, especially executives or people with obvious stakes in AI technology. Kane Parsons and Guillermo del Toro are two of the strongest voices against genAI in film right now.
