It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
I have thought highly of Chris Dodd for many years – until today. This astounding and insulting statement shows that Dodd and MPAA aren’t interested in reasonable compromise. I’ve owned a small business for 18 years that now relies on Google and the Internet for our marketing, and I am also an active Wikipedia editor. We didn’t enter into this protest lightly – our attorneys advised us that SOPA and PIPA are a real threat. Why would a guy like Chris Dodd throw down the gauntlet so aggressively? Mega-corporate greed? That explains it.
Poor honest organisations like the MPAA are being bullied by corporate monsters like Wikipedia?
I wonder if anyone would swallow this tripe.
And trying to play the “non-Americans are evil, we will protect you” card was already overused by Bush. People have had their eyes opened since then.
“… administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.”
SOPA and PIPA won’t affect American criminals?
Here’s a compromise:
let us go fix our Copyright system, back to the duration which was originally passed in 1790. Afterall, with digital technologies, the barriers to publishing have fallen, both in terms of their cost and their time-to-market.
That would mean a max duration of 28 years (14 + 14 extension), instead of the effectively “infinite” system we have now, with Congress passing a 20 year extensions each time that Mickey Mouse gets close to expiring…
And for Dodd: Senator and MPAA CEO … that’s clearly a Conflict of Interest … Recusal is an ethical mandate.
PS: that little icon next to my name? I haven’t signed a legal release for MovieCityNews.com that gives them permission to use my Copyrighted Works. As per the terms of the SOPA/PIPA, this website must be shut down.
“and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.”
Foreign criminals? Are you talking about my Eastern European friends who live in countries where the average income is below $1000 a month, and who cannot otherwise afford to watch movies?
Business interests? Punish their users?
The decision to blackout Wikipedia was made by the users! What business interest do they have? They are registered charitable organization, hence with no profits. Former Senator Dodd, you are playing fast and loose with the truth. You should think about your actions and words, and judge in your heart whether they accord with honest and righteous motivation or from a shameful attitude.
“…stunts that punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns…”
“…irresponsible response…”
“…an abuse of power…”
“…a dangerous and troubling development…”
“…intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests…”
“…another gimmick…a dangerous one, designed to punish”
And Wikipedia is being hyperbolic??? Somebody send the good senator a link to dictionary.com so he can look up the definition of “HYPERBOLE”. While he’s in the H’s, maybe he can look up the definition of “HYPOCRITE”!
Yet more confirmation that the major crooks we have to combat seem to be our own politicians and business leaders.
SENATOR Chris Dodd, CHAIRMAN and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. Of course an honest, objective personage such as Mr. Dodd wouldn’t have a conflict of interest. Would he?
How is the Wikipedia blackout punishing elected and administration officials? (In fact, the “blackout” is only a “brownout”, since Jimmy Wales et al. have given instructions how to circumvent it.) Seems to me this is a very responsible way to get users’ attention and to educate them.
wish this arrogant jerk would pull his head out of his ass just in time for a law- abiding gun-toting yank to blow his frigging head off
Here’s a problem. Say you have a son or daughter, and they spend
the weekend at grandmas. Here they download to their hearts contempt,
and even upload the entire series of “Family Guy”, all without the consent
of their grandmother. They continue this cycle over and over, each time
they visit, cause you know; they’re gonna need entertainment.
A year’s gone by and by the federal attorney’s count, old grandma
has uploaded and downloaded enough to be sent to the pokey for
two years. So the FBI kick down her door as she suffers a mild heart
attack. After concluding the situation, the lawyers discover that
grandma isn’t going to jail, and the kids sure as hell aren’t going to
juvie… maybe. But who then, who will be punished? Why, _you_,
of course…
So please, stop this idiocy at it’s roots… SOPA and SIPA do NOT prevent
piracy; it funds sharks in suits to trample on the rights of the innoscent.
Nothing more…
The MPAA: “WE HATED VCRs TOO!”
“It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests.”
HYPOCRITE!
Chris Dodd, you are self-serving trash.
Welcome newcomers! And welcome everyone to a post that made it fairly deep without a sanj link!
Is that a BROWNOUT in the Sunny in Philadelphia sense?
And to think I once supported Dodd’s presidential bid.
ELIZABETH WARREN in 2016!
Just to note, Chris Dodd isn’t in the Senate any more. He retired at the end of his term before joining the MPAA. That said, any valid point he might have wanted to make was swallowed up by the hyperbole about the “irresponsbile response” and “abuse of power.”
So pursuing corporate interests is only a good thing when it’s your own? F U MPAA.
Sounds like sour grapes. Getting beat at your own game.
FUCK YOU DODD! Fucking sellout.