In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot…

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The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from th…

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Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psycholog…

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Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than…

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All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.

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The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply …

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In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.

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South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.

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