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Vote:   | A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. |
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Vote: | But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. |
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Vote: | Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. |
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Vote: | I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much. |
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Vote: | I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. |
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Vote: | I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. |
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Vote: | That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further. |
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Vote: | To be fair-not that I really care about being fair to anyone, ever-but to be fair, I'm sure that same ratio of bad films to good probably exists in every studio. |
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Vote: | You can point to them: Rupert Murdoch, and Sumner Redstone, and Barry Diller-these robber barons, essentially, who buy and sell our culture like it's pig's feet. Not just the cinema, but news media - this ultra-conservative, super-rightwing. |
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Vote: | You know, in the '80s I was at UCLA, so I was able to watch older films on nitrate prints that the film and television archive had. Even now, four out of five films I see are old films-why see new films, new American films, y'know? |