https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/a37nnb/richard-linklater-talks-about-working-with-alex-jones
"...I don't blame you. Yeah, no, he's a total—he's doing pretty well for himself, though. You can't say he's not a self-made capitalist. Did you see that John Oliver bit on him? Someone told me about that and I finally looked it up, and I was like, "Oh my God." You gotta keep yourself employed. You're the one bracing for the attack, instead of the one giving the attack. It's how to play defense, but it's more fun to play offense. "
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/characters/nm1093953
"Alex Jones: What a bunch of garbage; liberal, democrat, conservative, republican. It's all there to control you! Two sides of the same coin. Two management teams bidding for control, the CEO job of Slavery, Incorporated! The truth is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of lies. I'm sick of it, and I'm not going to take a bite out of it, do you got me?"
https://www.westword.com/film/the-infowars-hit-austin-alex-jones-in-richard-linklaters-waking-life-and-a-scanner-darkly-8885289
" The fact that his inclusion seemed harmlessly amusing at the time is an object lesson in never underestimating the marginal crazies’ potential for harm. "
https://www.slashfilm.com/richard-linklater-bill-hicks-movie/
“There’s not quite any others like him. They don’t speak in the same voice. You’d think people would take that torch and go with it, but it’s a rare combination of that kind of intelligence, mysticism, political, you know… his politics, his angle, it’s pretty unique. I go through my life all the time… everything that’s going on in our culture, I always think, what would Bill Hicks be doing? You just miss him.”
scanner darkly
waking life..
linkletter bill hicks movie
- always wanted to work with bill quote
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