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...Courage to Cut? McCain strode to the microphones a short time later in Freeland, Mich., a little town near the spot where the thumb of the Michigan mitten meets the palm. The state's economy is the weakest in the country, and McCain was there to visit one of the few bright spots, a Dow Corning plant devoted to solar-power technology...
...Ibis appears on our horizon off the coast of India in 1838 - a period often romanticized in fiction through narratives of imperial bravado. But this won't do for Ghosh, a veteran postcolonialist. He instead depicts India as it most likely was under the thumb of Britain's East India Company. Its once bounteous countryside is now run by Company edict, with farmers ordered to grow poppies to feed colossal opium factories, in whose noxious environs even monkeys slump in "a miasma of lethargy." Their fields given over to drug cultivation, thousands of starving, impoverished villagers leave for new pastures...
...familiarity heuristic. Hearing a false rumor, especially if you hear it repeatedly, makes you more familiar with the rumor. All other things being the same, we seem to use a rule of thumb "if it sounds familiar, it is more likely to be true." Again, this finding should give us cause for a sober pause. What we hear often may in fact seem more plausible simply because we hear it often...
Well, the rule of thumb, or really the mythology, at the time was: you do a movie that's a big success, and then you can do your art film. To me, The Fly was as much an art film as anything I was going to do - but there was Dead Ringers that I'd been trying to get made. Yet even after I did The Fly, it still was a huge struggle. Then I realized something that I had intuited already, which is: those people in Hollywood are very down to earth, they're very practical. You walk...
...most important thing for me is that I make movies that I am passionate about. It's very hard to make a movie, so if you're not loving it, halfway through you're going to be suicidal. My rule of thumb is: when I'm halfway through this movie am I going to be really exhilarated and excited, or am I going to be suicidal? If it's the latter, then I absolutely don't do that project...