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I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.