When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more. |
Where else would you do this? If you do this in a serious venue, it would sound smarmy, produced and self-conscious. The best way to get out of (trouble) and get a few laughs is to have a late-night comic helping you through. |
Winona Ryder is no Fatty Arbuckle. I don't think this will do her career a lot of harm. |
With a couple of exceptions you can count on one hand even if you used to work in a saw mill and cut off a few fingers, television really managed to not catch up until 1970. |
Yes, they're mean. They don't show the best part of our human spirit. But, hey -- it's fun! |
You always have a certain affinity to the programming you watch from the age of six, ... where your consciousness is formed, until high school, and anything that comes after that will be positioned in your psyche in a different way. |
You can find volumes written about 'Citizen Kane' or 'The Wizard of Oz.' This movie has only been out for months … the response has been almost immediate. The Internet has opened up to anyone with a computer the opportunity to discuss and analyze in a way that used to be open to the very few who had access to publication media. |
You can redefine the place of Mars in pop culture. It's close enough to interact with. |
You can see how real this was. You can't fake that kind of joy. |
You could have men landing on Mars and Idol would beat it. |
You could've done a killer 20-minute anthology of Motown that would've been educational to kids who didn't know what Motown was. And the people who lived through Motown would've loved its nostalgic value. ... But music is the hardest way to appeal to a mass audience because it's highly fragmented and you never get anything that everyone likes. |
You never saw Linda Lavin and Ron Howard and LeVar Burton doing these kinds of things. It was a chance to see all of these people in a totally different context. |
You see them everywhere . . . it's like you have equity built up, because you've seen so much. You want to see how the story ends. |
You're seeing law enforcement falling apart and a modern, industrialized city brought to a complete breakdown, and these stories about the looting and the sniper fire are very much playing into this. |