Hollywood is capitalism at its best: opposing forces working it out, using tools of the marketplace. As such, it`s vastly messier than totalitarianism, but it kills a lot less people.
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.
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."
[to acting students at Atlantic Theater Company]Invent nothing, deny nothing.
