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Noam Chomsky 2004 flickr Photo by Duncan Rawlinson

[The mass media] serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable — if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.

Noam Chomsky
excerpted from What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Kirsten Dunst in <i>Marie Antoinette</i> Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette

I did it, it looks beautiful, it's a Lars von Trier film, it's fine. If I was in some comedy and showing my boobs, I'd be bummed. I don't think you should show your boobs in a comedy, especially if you're the lead. Boobs aren't funny.

Kirsten Dunst
on Melancholia, etc.,
via The Vancouver Sun
September 12, 2011

John Landis Director John Landis; image from www.horror-movies.ca

I would be delighted to make a studio picture, but the truth is, if you look at the films they’re making, they are not the movies I want to make. I don’t want to make Thor. [Laughs.] I don’t want to make Green Lantern. Cowboys And Aliens: That’s not Jon Favreau’s movie, he’s just an employee, he’s just doing the bidding, and it’s just too bad. It’s a combination of economics and we live in a very conservative and reactionary and frightened time. People are scared shitless in terms of taking risks on movies. Would the studios ever make a movie like Into The Night now? Or even Animal House?

John Landis
via A.V.Club
September 8, 2011

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