

They are silly vapid amoral creatures who think their great wealth qualifies them as intelligent and thoughtful, completely forgetting that they make their living reciting someone else's words. I am now thoroughly put off renting or borrowing them because of the wretched moral state of those who make them.A book like this is why I never ever want to hear the political opinions of any Hollywood star. I don't generally go to movies because they cost too much and the audience has no manners. All of the wunderkinds from the 70s are nasty little brats whose sole concern is making their movies and they really don't care what happens to anyone while they do it, including wives and children. What I chiefly learned from this book is that Hollywood truly is an amoral swamp and there are no good guys there, and probably never have been.

This is supposed to be a history of the change in movie-making from the studio system to the "auteur" method.
