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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Character Integrate People Strong
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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Calling United States War
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
What I’ve experienced, I’m trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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Narrative Suppose Trying
I feel like I am what I am.
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Individual Like
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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Campaigns Country Going People
I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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might Positive Taken
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator – greed motivating evolution. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It’s a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?
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DNA Profound Purpose
writing = ass + chair
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Ass Chairs Writing
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People

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