'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.
I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.