'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.'
It is not a mistake to want power.
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.
The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.
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