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Fame is not creativity, it’s the industrial disease of creativity.

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Hollywood industrialized mythology, and then weaponized it.

the first chapter of his memoir Canada (2016)

Rome ruled the world with that phalanx formation and Britain with the three-masted ship; America has ruled the world with the moving image and the projection of image around the world.

Interviewed in Eugene Jarecki's The King (2017)

They say that comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite. I'm always creating and writing stuff so it's nice for me to be able to watch it as a fan.

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Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

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In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

Andy Warhol

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