I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder censorship, we call it concern for commercial viability.David Mamet
Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
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We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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