This group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the back of theatres. |
This is fun ... this is the golden time. |
This is not an industry that says OK. It has to be about big business and big budgets. I think the beauty of the academy is that it finds little moments to say, 'Let's talk about these films and let's talk about things that maybe the rest of the mainstream doesn't get a chance to see. |
This is your chance to put your considerable money where your considerable mouth is, ... Your fan. |
This was an important period of time in (my father's) history, in shaping what he was as a newsman. It was the high-water mark, ... And when I started to do it, my dad said, 'Be very careful with your facts.' And so we double-sourced every single scene. |
This was an important period of time in [my father's] history, in shaping what he was as a newsman. It was the high-water mark, ... And when I started to do it, my dad said, 'Be very careful with your facts.' And so we double-sourced every single scene. |
TV makes or breaks policy. You could argue it elected (President John F.) Kennedy. The danger is most people get their information from television. It has to be done responsibly. |
Unlike McCarthy, |
We are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while. I think it's probably a good thing. We're the ones who talk about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular. This Academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm proud to be a part of this Academy. |
We are a little bit out-of-touch in Hollywood every once in a while. |
We are a little bit out-of-touch in Hollywood. I think that?s probably a good thing. We are the ones who talked about AIDS when it was only being whispered ... We talked about civil rights ... I?m proud to be part of this Academy, proud to be part of this community. |
We are talking to our friend Brad Pitt about being involved in the design. |
We had to show him doing what he did because there are people out now trying to say what he did wasn't so bad. |
We have this romantic notion of a place where you put on a jacket or a dress to go to dinner, ... We will have some sort of dress code so that it will feel like you are walking into a more formal Las Vegas of a different age or a classic Monte Carlo casino. |
We want to be real investors, to have some percentage of it. You got to put your money where your mouth is. How much did I put in? A lot. A lot more than I expected. |