Reel roots of the financial crisis
John Wayne:
“All the real motion picture people have always made family pictures. But the downbeats and the so-called intelligentsia got in when the government stupidly split up the production companies and the theaters. The old giants – Mayer, Thalberg, even Harry Cohn, despite the fact that personally I couldn't stand him – were good for this industry. Now the goddamned stock manipulators have taken over. They don't know a goddamned thing about making movies. They make something dirty, and it makes money, and they say, ‘Jesus, let's make one a little dirtier, maybe it'll make more money.’ And now even the bankers are getting their noses into it.”
