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...words, as defined entities, are self-limiting; now Carlin has come to a plateau in his life where new and fresh words and ironies are getting harder to find. He is literally fighting to free himself from his own words, and he'll try to do it through film...
...George Carlin has never tried to change the world; he just likes to run up on that stage and gesticulate and sweat and express, and the gales of laughter--sometimes even hysterical and mad laughter--make him feel good. "My purpose is self-expression, and when they applaud or laugh, it's their way of saying, 'Hey man, we like your self-expression," he says...
...George Carlin likes to "get his strokes" at his work, and he's been fortunate and deserving. He's absolutely correct when he says he was working in "a safer era," but perhaps it is too safe for his own good...
Unwittingly summarizing his own situation, Carlin talks about his teenage drug experience: "The trouble with drugs is that they are self-limiting. They open certain doors of perception which you already have--the drug doesn't add anything which isn't already there. Even with LSD and mescaline, you reach a point where it just doesn't do as much for you anymore...
...very interested in having a movie career-writing, and being in them, some combination of arts and skills. The first one is called "The Illustrated George Carlin" and there'll be a lot of concert footage with some cartooning and little vignettes. As far as I know no comedian has made a film with his own concert footage...